Re: FTP support
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > I don't know if the person who mentioned this to me had the -dev package
> > installed. Make the -dev depend on the virtual package provided by APT and
> > then things will be fine. Don't use a conflicts, too strong..
>
> That would not help. The problem was with people who did _not_ upgrade
> their libapt-pkg-dev package, which still had the old link. Nothing I
> can do to the new (> 0.3.1) libapt-pkg-dev will help them.
> Adding the Depends: for the libapt-pkg${LIBAPT_MAJOR} to libapt-pkg-dev
> will work for everybody upgrading from 0.3.2 -> 0.x.x (where x.x > 3.2),
> but we would still need a Conflicts for apt <= 0.3.1.
> Still think Conflicts: is not the solution?
Well no, this only happens because there exists an old libapt-pkg-dev that
does not use this scheme, we can advoid any future pain by having a
Depends: libapt-pkg2.2
On libapt-pkg-dev and a Provides: libapt-pkg2.2 on apt, APT will then
prevent the two from getting out of sync. That is good enough.
> > version string. I noticed you updated the config.in file but you didn't
> > rebuild config.h. After you change config.in you should either rm -rf
> > build or run 'make startup' to refresh the generated output.
>
> I see. Thanks.
Add that call to configure I think..
Jason
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