On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:13:56AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > 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.
Yes, that was my original suggestion, but some seemed to think it wouldn't solve the problem. I fail to see how it wouldn't. -- Ben Collins - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- UnixGroup Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Developer GNU/Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenLDAP Core <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
