Hello, for some libraries, there are different versions concurrently available, and different packages are built with different versions of those libraries.
In such cases, this may cause different versions to be installed, even if it's not really needed. Example (atm on sarge): % grep-status -FDepends -s Package libdb4.1 | grep -v db4.1 | wc -l 2 % grep-status -FDepends -s Package libdb4.2 | grep -v db4.2 | wc -l 7 % grep-status -FDepends -s Package libdb4.3 | grep -v db4.3 | wc -l 2 (that grep -v prevents packages libdb*-dev and libdb*-util from counting) So: I have 3 different of libdb4 installed, version 4.2 because of 7 packages, and versions 4.1 and 4.3 each because of 2 packages. The global situation is similar: % grep-available -FDepends -s Package libdb4.1 | grep -v db4.1 | wc -l 21 % grep-available -FDepends -s Package libdb4.2 | grep -v db4.2 | wc -l 81 % grep-available -FDepends -s Package libdb4.3 | grep -v db4.3 | wc -l 15 I understand that there are cases when package doesn't compile or correctly work with different version of library (and this it probably one of reasons why do we have that many concurrent versions). I also understand that sarge is currently in testing stage and the situation may change a lot. So my questions are: - does it sound reasonable (when sarge is going to be frozen), to ask package maintainers to (try to) compile those packages with different versions of libraries? For example, if libdb4.2 is mostly used, so some packages could be compiled widh libdb4.2, so libdb4.1 and libdb4.3 would become useless on some systems and could be uninstalled there (together with related packages). - does anyone work on such cases (e.g. release manager)? - or should I ask package maintainers to try recompiling? Thank you. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "One World. One Web. One Program." - Microsoft promotional advertisement "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" - Adolf Hitler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
