Hi Євгеній,

> > Okay, in addition to this wouldn't we also need to go through NEW for
> > each API bump also we need to detect these API bumps in the first place?
> No, the control file for swi-prolog-nox should contain something like
> this:
> 
>   Provides: swi-prolog-vm-01234567
> 
> And control file for spark source could contain this:
> 
>   Depends: ${swipl:VM-Version}

Ah, of course. Neat.

> The provides field in swi-prolog package can be filled by some script
> that looks for VM_SIGNATURE value during package build, so no manual
> changes will be required.
> 
> Looking at src/pl-wic.c, maybe LOADVERSION (or VERSION) needs to be taken
> into account too in virtual package name, but I'm not sure

If you are working on a patch you might like to contact SWI's maintainer,
Jan Wielemaker. He's been happy to clarify issues in the past and I'm sure
he'd be happy to help.


Regards,

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