On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:34:54 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > I prefer libglut3-dev . > We should make versioned -dev (binary) packages the exception, not the norm. > libglut-dev is better. Think about libglut3-dev, libglut4-dev, > libglut5-dev etc. and how libglut-dev makes upgrades much easier.
1. libfoo1 is compiled with libglut3 (that is, libglut-dev) 2. bar is compiled with libfoo1 3. libfoo1 is recompiled with libglut4 (that is, again, libglut-dev) 4. old bar does not work with new libfoo1 5. the maintainer of libfoo1 gets flamed because he/she is careless when using libglut-dev, though there is no good[1] way to specify a build-dependency to avoid this flame before libglut4 is released (that is, without knowing the version number of libglut-dev for libglut4) [1] Build-Depends: libglut-dev (= something) is suboptimal, and the fast way to get a FTBTS bug -- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 her occasionally near suicidal sense of loyal self-sacrifice --- Luke Seubert, about what Rei Ayanami and Debian developers have in common -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
