On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:47:27PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > > You wrote in the 396640 bug log:
> > > Indeed, libpci.a now depends on libz, but pciutils-dev doesn't have a > > > dependency reflecting this -- nor, for that matter, is there any facility > > > in > > > pciutils-dev that lets consumers of this library know what other libs one > > > needs to link against! Seeing now that pciutils-dev *only* provides a > > > static library, it seems that this is going to require quite a few source > > > changes in the reverse-dependencies, so I'm pre-emptively freezing > > > pciutils > > > in etch at its current version to avoid adding 11 new release-critical > > > bugs > > > to etch unnecessarily. > > Does this mean all reverse depends are effectively frozen as well? I was > > hoping > > I could do one more upload which fixes some small bugs (translation, > > removing one > > spurious file) in uswsusp. Also there a serious bug (#397214) opened > > against > > my package, for which I maybe need to do an upload. I'm not sure that it is > > a > > real serious bug yet, though. > Replying to myself: Because it's a _static_ library there is no dependency on > pciutils... Correct -- you just need to ensure that your package will build with both the testing and the unstable versions of pciutils. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
