> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > So, what method do you prefer? Or do you have better ideas? How hard > > > would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there > > > other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy? > > I strongly prefer method 1. I really think dpkg should be improved, > > but as that doesn't seem to happen any time soon, I don't think > > method 2 will hurt in the mean time. Anyone else see any problems > > with method 2? > > Better method: Remove the version from svgalib1g shlibs (as the other > libc6 libraries have done). The version would be needed again if a > new upstream release of svgalib with an incompatible library arrives, as > this seems far from happening this would be a perfect solution for > svgalib, IMO.
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