Re: Bug#55730: Changes in handling library dependencies
> How do we ensure that someone upgrading a package from potato to woody
> pulls in all of the required libraries? As a "concrete" example,
> /usr/bin/foo in the foo package depends upon libbar directly and
> libbar depends upon libbaz indirectly. In potato, libbar does not
> declare a dependency upon libbaz, although it will in woody.
The problem you describe can exist. But only if libbar doesn't depend
yet on libbaz in potato.
However (as already said in a previous mail) I think that most shlib
packages already do depend on other libs they need. What about
checking for libs that have no such dependencies first?
Roman
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