On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 04:54:40PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Will it be ok to depend on the -dev package unversioned, or do we > somehow need to tie it to the version that the haskell package was built > against?
A lower limit on the version may be useful sometimes, but you shouldn't be using an upper limit. Unversioned deps on C -dev packages is ok, since that part is taken care of if you depend on the shared library. Your package will get uninstallable when the library gets updated and the soname changes. Someone still having the old shared library version and a haskell library linking to that around may get broken results when the C -dev package has a link to a newer shared library version, but that's something that C developers will need to deal with. Just make sure to use build-deps with libfoo-dev (>= X) when appropriate and aptitude upgrade before building anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
