On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:03:10 +0100 Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > You wrote in the 396640 bug log: > > > Indeed, libpci.a now depends on libz, but pciutils-dev doesn't have a > > dependency reflecting this -- nor, for that matter, is there any facility in > > pciutils-dev that lets consumers of this library know what other libs one > > needs to link against! Seeing now that pciutils-dev *only* provides a > > static library, it seems that this is going to require quite a few source > > changes in the reverse-dependencies, so I'm pre-emptively freezing pciutils > > in etch at its current version to avoid adding 11 new release-critical bugs > > to etch unnecessarily. > > Does this mean all reverse depends are effectively frozen as well? I was hoping > I could do one more upload which fixes some small bugs (translation, removing one > spurious file) in uswsusp. Also there a serious bug (#397214) opened against > my package, for which I maybe need to do an upload. I'm not sure that it is a > real serious bug yet, though. Replying to myself: Because it's a _static_ library there is no dependency on pciutils... grts Tim
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