On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Versioned depends is precisely what breaks
No, you're confusing two things. > because the content of > -bad was split between good and ugly, we no longer have a safe way to > figure out which package provides which codec. That's correct. It would be nice to have such a mapping; in fact we have one, but not injecting package dependencies. > Even then, this reorganization forces maintainers of other packages to > version THEIR dependencies, to either get what they need from bad << > version, or good >= version or bad >= version. Not necessarily, no; we could as well have the new packages missing functionality depending on the new packages providing them. Could you please list the specific plugins you miss? > However, there is not > way to declare that a package will depend on both good and ugly, > instead of just bad. Tell me what combinations are ok, and I'll write the depends you need. -- Loïc Minier