Felipe Sateler <fsateler <at> debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:15:13 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> 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, [...] > > 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).
> You can, as hinted in the bug report, Breaks all packages depending on > libnettle4 and libgnutls-deb0-28 (<< the version at which they switch to > libnettle6). [...] That is neither correct, nor a good solution. - As Magnus noted this would make backports of nettle-rdeps impossible. FWIW I will add Conflicts against the nettle 2.7 library package in the next GnuTLS unstable upload. Change is already in GIT. cu Andreas -- 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/loom.20150616t073149-...@post.gmane.org
