Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 libprotobuf17 needs Breaks: libprotobuf10
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:27:52PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:36:55 +0200 > =?UTF-8?B?TMOhc3psw7MgQsO2c3rDtnJtw6lueWkgKEdDUyk=?= <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let's break it to parts. > > 1) Can libprotobuf10 and libprotobuf17 installed together and > > independent packages working correctly with these libraries? Yes, > > these are possible. I don't see the need to break the old > > libprotobuf10 package. > > OK. Since its only an issue during build time and not runtime, I think > we can reduce the severity of this bug. No, it is not. I would expect everything that fails during build time to fail the same way at runtime. > > 2) Packages that depend on each other, need to be compiled with the > > same ProtoBuf version. This should be expressed in those package > > dependencies. >... How exactly do you want this to be "expressed in those package dependencies" so that it is ensured that any kind of stretch/buster/sid mixing that is permitted by the package dependencies is also working? If you actually have a complete solution that is better than a Breaks: libprotobuf10 in libprotobuf17, please share the details. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
