On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:10:41PM +0200, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > > Basically all it has is a control file with unversioned -dev packages > > that depend on the corresponding 1.38-dev package. I'd appreciate it > > if you would give it a glance and see whether I've missed something. > > Let's make the unversioned development packages arch:any, and > build-depend on libboost1.38-dev. That way, even if the intent is to > only bump the major version when eg. boost1.39 is built everywhere, it > should be less problematic (ie. no uninstallable -dev) if it gets done > before, either on purpose or accidentally. I have done as you asked. However, I don't understand (a) what is the issue you are concerned about, and (b) how this change prevents it. If you don't mind, could you expand on this? I think this may benefit others, as 2 of the 3 -defaults packages I looked at as examples use arch:all. Thanks, -Steve
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