On 25/03/11 23:13, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Are there dependencies from the -ddeb to the binary? Because you'd want to
> update/upgrade your ddeb when you update the library, otherwise it becomes
> useless. I imagine there can't be given that the binaries of our source
> package might not be co-installable.
This is handled by
# If the ddeb appears in the control file, we let the
# packager override our defaults there.
my $arch=package_arch($package);
my $srcpackage=sourcepackage();
my $depends="";
foreach my $pkg (getpackages("same")) {
if ($pkg ne $package) {
addsubstvar($package,"ddeb:Conflicts","$pkg","<<
\${binary:Version}");
addsubstvar($package,"ddeb:Conflicts","$pkg",">>
\${binary:Version}");
$depends="$depends | $pkg (= \${binary:Version})";
}
}
$depends=~s/^ \| //;
addsubstvar($package,"ddeb:Depends","$depends","");
> Is there a rationale why this was done differently from Ubuntu?
There probably was, though I don't remember it. You can search in the
debian-devel archives on July and August 2009.
Cheers,
Emilio
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