Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:45:43 -0800
Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> wrote:
> > I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has
> > become libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0.
> >
> > This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my
> > packages, packages that I'd rather keep.
> >
> > I gather this is to do with splitting libvorbisenc and libvorbisfile
> > out of libvorbis0, and that renaming libvorbis0 to libvorbis0a
> > forces package maintainers to update their dependencies to
> > explicitly depend on vorbisfile or vorbisenc if necessary.
> >
> > Is this the only reason for the renaming?
>
> I believe so.
>
> > If I had libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3 all
> > installed, would those packages that depend on libvorbis0 still
> > technically work, apart from the package dependencies?
> >
> > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that
> > depends on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would
> > have to change libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with
> > libvorbis0, but that's easy to do from the source.
> >
> > So, what I'm planning to do is to "apt-get source libvorbis", update
> > the versions to 1.0.0-3.0.1, modify the control file so 0a does not
> > conflict or replace 0, add a libvorbis0 meta-package, build and
> > install.
> >
> > Will this work? (well, I'm going to try it anyway, but any feedback
> > from the list would be useful).
>
> It sounds like it should. If it does, you should send your solution
> to the libvorbis maintainer, since the current situation is less than
> ideal.
Did anyone ever file a bug about this?
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Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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