On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:58:42PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at 14:52:57 +0000, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > I don't have the time to look at your work right now, but I don't follow > > you here. The resulting debian/control after substitutions in the ocaml > > package still have the provide lines. So why we can't still build-depend > > on them? > > > > Nonetheless I don't like the idea of waiting for the package to be built > > and installed before being able to upload it. I would like to upload a > > package which build depend on ocaml-XXX and let the autobuilders build > > it when that dependency is available. > > > The build-dependency on the virtual packages is needed when the runtime > dependencies are hard-coded. If they are generated at build-time, you > don't need to build-depend on the virtual package, you can just use > ocaml (>= 3.09.0) or similar. This will actually work better, since > autobuilders will automatically put your package in Dep-Wait for ocaml > until ocaml is build and uploaded.
Indeed, but you still need to upgrade the 3.09.0 at each upgrade. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
