On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 07:17:23PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > What we need is to not have infinite numbers of libgtk1.1.x libs in the > > > distribution. Stick with libgtk1.1 and use shlibs to ensure things get > > > recompiled against them. I would much rather have one lib and many > > > programs that break on the next release than tons of libs _and_ still > > > many broken programs as well as a mess on my system. > > > > Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like: > > > > Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< > > next_upstream_version) > > > > All this requires is guessing what next_upstream_version will be. It > > will cause some unnecessary overly strict dependancies, but it will > > ensure no packages ever break when you upgrade libgtk1.1. > > Nope; no reverse dependency checking in dpkg, remember?
So an app that depends on libgtk cannot have something like this? Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= 1.1.4-0), libgtk1.1 (<< 1.1.5-0) -- Ben Collins - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- UnixGroup Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Developer GNU/Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenLDAP Core <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
