Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 07:17:23PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
>
> > Ben Collins wrote:
> > > What we need is to not have infinite numbers of libgtk1.1.x libs in the
> > > distribution. Stick with libgtk1.1 and use shlibs to ensure things get
> > > recompiled against them. I would much rather have one lib and many
> > > programs that break on the next release than tons of libs _and_ still
> > > many broken programs as well as a mess on my system.
> >
> > Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like:
> >
> > Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< next_upstream_version)
> >
> > All this requires is guessing what next_upstream_version will be. It
> > will cause some unnecessary overly strict dependancies, but it will
> > ensure no packages ever break when you upgrade libgtk1.1.
>
> Nope; no reverse dependency checking in dpkg, remember?
So an app that depends on libgtk cannot have something like this?
Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= 1.1.4-0), libgtk1.1 (<< 1.1.5-0)
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