On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > [posted this to -mentors 40 hours ago without an answer, so > perhaps I'll try -devel instead] > > I recently uploaded i386 packages that were build on a slink system > upgraded to potato's libc6 and C compilers (everything else is > slink). These packages (xcolmix and xplot) have this depends > line: > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libforms0.88, xlib6g (>= 3.3.2.3a-2) > > Now I built an all-potato chroot environment and notice that the potato > xlib6g-dev package creates a depency line: > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libforms0.88, xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1) > > Should I rebuild the i386 binaries with the new xlib6g-dev > and upload them with .0.1 version number suffix? Or perhaps it > doesn't matter?
As far as xlib6g is concerned, I don't think it does matter. As a general rule, as long as you can run the result in potato without using oldlibs packages, it should be fine. [ Personal note: Most of the packages I maintain depend on libc6 and nothing more. For this reason I have not upgraded to potato yet. This way my uploads are usable by both slink and potato users ]. BTW: If libforms0.88 is actually the "current" libforms in potato, then you could have even avoided completely the upgrade of libc6 and compilers. It seems your package should run ok on a potato machine even if it was compiled on a slink system. Thanks. -- "93ae05efde18fe439546b944aa06d657" (a truly random sig)
