On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:45:43 -0800 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I notice that in the unstable distribution that libvorbis0 has > > become libvorbis0a, and that libvorbis0a conflicts with libvorbis0. > > > > This is causing "apt-get dist-upgrade" to want to remove a lot of my > > packages, packages that I'd rather keep. > > > > I gather this is to do with splitting libvorbisenc and libvorbisfile > > out of libvorbis0, and that renaming libvorbis0 to libvorbis0a > > forces package maintainers to update their dependencies to > > explicitly depend on vorbisfile or vorbisenc if necessary. > > > > Is this the only reason for the renaming? > > I believe so. > > > If I had libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3 all > > installed, would those packages that depend on libvorbis0 still > > technically work, apart from the package dependencies? > > > > If this is true, could I create a meta-package, libvorbis0, that > > depends on libvorbis0a, libvorbisenc2 and libvorbisfile3? I would > > have to change libvorbis0a so that it no longer conflicts with > > libvorbis0, but that's easy to do from the source. > > > > So, what I'm planning to do is to "apt-get source libvorbis", update > > the versions to 1.0.0-3.0.1, modify the control file so 0a does not > > conflict or replace 0, add a libvorbis0 meta-package, build and > > install. > > > > Will this work? (well, I'm going to try it anyway, but any feedback > > from the list would be useful). > > It sounds like it should. If it does, you should send your solution > to the libvorbis maintainer, since the current situation is less than > ideal. Did anyone ever file a bug about this? -- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
