Bug#821397: sway 1.0-rc1

[Birger Schacht <birger@rantanplan.org>]

Hi,

On 2/9/19 8:55 PM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Birger,
> 
> On Sat 09 Feb 2019 at 07:25PM +01, Birger Schacht wrote:
> 
>>>>   * Make versioned run dependency on libwlroots0 explicit
>>>
>>> Please explain (either in the changelog or with a comment in d/control)
>>> why this is needed -- it's unusual not to be able to rely on
>>> dpkg-shlibdeps doing this for you.  This does matter, even if the
>>> package is NEW.
>>
>> I have to admit that i don't know ;) When trying to test sway i realized
>> that i only had libwlroots0 in an older version but dpkg didn't warn me
>> about that. `apt show sway` didn't show the version for libwlroots0
>> either in the Depends. But with listing the version explicitly the
>> package also has a dependency on the correct version.
> 
> Are you saying that sway would not work at all with the older libwlroots?

Exactly. With libwlroots0 0.2-1 sway crashed.

cheers,
Birger