On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 3) Keep only one library name, and depend on libfoo (>> 3.4.5). > > I will use this one for the bunch of packages I'm going to rebuild. I
Ok with me. > suppose that dropping the << part of the dependency is to avoid testing > problem, right? Well, and it doesn't bring really all that much. The only way it will help is if you upload a non backward compatible library and someone depends on it, but is not rebuilding his package quickly enough. Anyway, it is only a problem for -dev packages. Notice that even the glibc dependency is using only the >> part. > I'm also going to write the quick and dirty tool that check for > consistency of installed ocaml library so that we, maintainers, are able > to know if we are going to break something while uploading a new > library. Cool ... Friendly, Sven Luther
