Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > If the library package also ships utility binaries or data[1], changing the > binary package name would not allow side-by-side installation since the > packages would still conflict. That makes the package fail to comply with Policy

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 12:54:21 Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:45:53AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090901055635.gc6...@glandium.org>, Mike Hommey wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: > > >> Another issue sprung up, though.

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:45:53AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090901055635.gc6...@glandium.org>, Mike Hommey wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: > >> Another issue sprung up, though. What I need to be able to do now is have > >> libngi3 (0.8) and l

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
First of all, TOFU is generally frowned upon as a posting style on technical mailing lists. Second, IANADD and TINASOTODP; I speak only for myself. On Tuesday 01 September 2009 08:55:45 Joe Smith wrote: > We're making a set of interface libraries for use in cross-platform > application developme

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Joe Smith
Hi Mike, The scenario is this: We're making a set of interface libraries for use in cross-platform application development. We want to 100% guarantee that if an application is compiled against a particular version of the library, then it's guarateed to work indefinitely with the same level of fun

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-09-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090901055635.gc6...@glandium.org>, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: >> Another issue sprung up, though. What I need to be able to do now is have >> libngi3 (0.8) and libngi3 (0.9) installed at the same time. They don't >> share any binaries that a

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: > Thanks Mike. Sorted that issue out. Didn't realize I'd commented out > dh_makeshlibs =) > > Another issue sprung up, though. What I need to be able to do now is have > libngi3 (0.8) and libngi3 (0.9) installed at the same time. They don'

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-08-31 Thread Joe Smith
If this is the case, is there an easy way to insert a variable of sorts into the package name and also as the files used for the .dirs and .install file? If possible, I'd like to automate as much as possible of the version incrementing, but currently I need to change the configure.in (which is fine

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-08-31 Thread Joe Smith
Thanks Mike. Sorted that issue out. Didn't realize I'd commented out dh_makeshlibs =) Another issue sprung up, though. What I need to be able to do now is have libngi3 (0.8) and libngi3 (0.9) installed at the same time. They don't share any binaries that are the same. I assume this means that I a

Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

2009-08-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:09:21PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote: > Can you provide any insight on how I can get dpkg-shlibdeps to pick this up > automatically without having to hardcode the libmylib (= 0.8) dependency and > having to change that every time a new library is compiled against? Is the appli