Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > Is the Debian dependency system broken? [...]
No, but there is no way to *correctly* handle the problem with the automatic depency mechanism. It is possible to use in some manual kludge, but not a correct one. libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.15-5 does not break or conflict with libnettle4. An application just using libnettle4 will continue to work no matter whether gnutls is rebuilt against libnettle6. It is just that an application may not link at the same time against libnettle4 and libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.15-5. Neither Debian nor afaik any other major distribution supports this kind of complexity in its dependency system (conditional dependencies). cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/vpd35c-n72....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
