Bug#581818: zlib version check too strict

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 26.05.10 Alexey Salmin (alexey.salmin@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi,

> Should't this dependency be shown in package dependencies
> not matter how strict or necessary it is?
> Luatex package explicetly depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
> so this implicit dependency on 1.2.3.4 breaks system upgrade:
> 
Well, the dep (>= 1:1.1.4) is declared by the zlib1g package itself,
i.e. we just build using the zlib1g-dev package and the dep is
created by itself. We could introduce a conflict against a to new
zlib1g or we could loosen the dep in the source code of luatex itself
(a similar thing was done before).

Or we could simply wait until 1.2.5 is in unstable and then re-upload
luatex. People running packages from experimental should expect
system breakages.

H.
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