Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:57:43PM +0100, J�r�me Marant wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Does someone remember why lib*-ocaml needs to depend on > > ocaml-base-X.Y? I received a mail from a libsdl-ocaml > > user who think that this is not requred. > > libfoo-ocaml should depend on ocaml-base, since the corresponding files > in that package, which are only the dll.so stub libraries and nothing > more if i remember well, are totally useless without ocaml-base.
I don't think so. > This does not apply to libfoo-ocaml-dev. > > $ dpkg -L libsdl-ocaml > /. > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/lintian > /usr/share/lintian/overrides > /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libsdl-ocaml > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/HISTORY > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/README > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/copyright > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/changelog.gz > /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/changelog.Debian.gz > /usr/lib > /usr/lib/ocaml > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07 > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlloaderstub.so > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlmixerstub.so > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlstub.so > /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlttfstub.so > > So, i seriously doubt what use would be those dll.so libraries without > ocaml-base. What do you have in mind? I don't get it. > It doesn't really need to be a dependency, more to the contrary, > ocaml-base and libsdl-ocaml using bytecode should depend on > libsdl-ocaml, but that would not be practical. Sorry, I fail to understand what you mean. > What was the rationale of said user ? Simply that there is no binary dependency. I'm pretty sure libsdl-ocaml dlls don't depend on otherlibs dlls. -- J�r�me Marant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
