Ben Collins wrote: > What we need is to not have infinite numbers of libgtk1.1.x libs in the > distribution. Stick with libgtk1.1 and use shlibs to ensure things get > recompiled against them. I would much rather have one lib and many > programs that break on the next release than tons of libs _and_ still > many broken programs as well as a mess on my system.
Why can't libgtk just have a shlibs file that generates dependancies like: Depends: libgtk1.1 (>= current_version), libgtk1.1 (<< next_upstream_version) All this requires is guessing what next_upstream_version will be. It will cause some unnecessary overly strict dependancies, but it will ensure no packages ever break when you upgrade libgtk1.1. -- see shy jo
