Re: libxrender1 dependency
On 12 March 2004, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:59:56PM +0200, Emil wrote:
> > Is this normal: depends on xlibs >> 4.1.0 and conflicts
> > with xlibs << 4.3.0 ?
> >
> > Package: libxrender1
> > Version: 0.8.3-7
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> > Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0)
>
> Yes. The only way to satisfy this package's dependency is to install
> libx11-6.
>
> The package dependencies are calculated by dpkg-shlibdeps, not
> hand-coded into the package metadata, in which case I agree they would
> not make very much sense.
Which is equivalent to say you need X 4.3.0 because
Package: libx11-6
Version: 4.3.0-5
Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0)
libxrender1 0.8.3-5 had no dependency problems and I could happily
use X 4.2.1 with it. There is something broken in dpkg-shlibdeps
which made this change from libxrender1 0.8.3-5 to 0.8.3-7 so I'm
sticking with the older version until this problem is solved.
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