Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:02:11 +0100 > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > britney only considers installability, not buildability. >> >> Maybe it should - after all, in the phase prior to a release, the >> ability to build the entire release from source *is* important. To me, >> this is precisely what Britney should be able to avoid - gossip >> migrated (irrespective of what happened with the unblock, this could >> easily happen between releases too) in a condition that would not >> build from source in testing. > > Actually, maybe lintian can come to the rescue here - if the > Build-Depends version is higher than the shared library dependency > isn't that always going to be a problem? > > The reverse is fine, of course, but Build-Depends >> shlibs would > appear to be a problem waiting to happen.
Wasn't dpkg supposed to use max(shlibs, build-depends)? The rationale, IIRC, is because a particular program might rely on a specific bugfix in a given version of the library. Since bugfixes don't cause shlibs bumps, this was a way for the maintainer to enforce the correct functioning of the program. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]