OK, thanks for this good piece of advice. On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:10:22PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:30:15PM -0800, Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake > forth: > > > > > It actually works with tcl 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 you are right. So what about : > > > > > > Depends: tcl8.0 | tcl8.1 | tcl8.2 > > > > Or mayby just depend on a version greater than 8.0, as you do with > > debhelper in you build depend. But Mayby tcl breaks backward > > compatability a lot and you thing it would be better without that, sort of > > a judgement call I guess. > > <hat type="Tcl maintainer"> > Couple of problems with this... > 1) tcl8.1 doesn't exist in Debian > 2) tcl breaks backwards compatability a *lot* > 3) because of #2, there are separate packages for 8.0, 8.2, and 8.3; > therefore, a simple Depends: tcl (>= 8.0) will not work. > > All in all, "Depends: tclsh | tcl8.2" should generally work for > straightforward > scripts, as the language doesn't tend to change that much between releases, > just the API for the library and various internals. All of the tcl packages > Provide: tclsh, so that'll work for scripts which don't have any insanity > preventing them from working with all modern TCLs. > > Note that lintian complains about depending only on a virtual package, and > while a quick glance doesn't find language in policy which forbids it, that > is just a quick glance ;). > </hat> > > -- > Mike Markley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG: 0x3B047084 7FC7 0DC0 EF31 DF83 7313 FE2B 77A8 F36A 3B04 7084 > > "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." > "You admit that?" > "To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor" > - Spock and McCoy, "A Piece of the Action", stardate unknown > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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