-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Johnson wrote: >> By this you mean we build-depend on a virtual package like libfoo-dev, >> which is Provided by libfoo0-dev, libfoo1-dev and so on?
> Well, there's two ways of doing this in C libraries. Some provide > versionned -dev packages and some don't. In the case of the unversionned > ones then if you try and rebuild after a transition you will link > against the new version, which may fail. It may also succeed, and only break unpredictably at runtime because the API did change... Cheers, Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp17+AACgkQXjXn6TzcAQl7MACglWLWwZNDbK4VhUcHTCY7y+pK EaAAoKoMZWP+Dv0qnwDbhl5uLQ/+VaAK =fEiY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
