Bug#234785: libxrender1: quite strange dependencies, also

[Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2004@lina.inka.de>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:13:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:26:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > Package: libxrender1
> > Version: 0.8.3-5
> > Followup-For: Bug #234785
> > 
> > it has also some quite strange dependencies:
> > 
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> > Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0)
> > 
> > isnt it better to specify Depends: xlibs (>= 4.3.0) instead?
> 
> No, why?
> 
> If I do that, people like Norbert Tretkowski have to work harder to provide
> a backport for woody[1].

Hmm...  you mean the Depends/Conflicts is  redundant, but more adaptive to
compile time changes? 

Unfortunatelly this "feature" is confusing  users and  most likely also
software which tries to resolve dependencies. Well  at least it confused me
while i was looking for the reason why I cant upgrade it.

But I dont care much, I was not aware that somebody could want to do this
intentional :)

Greetings
Bernd