On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, if you require a minimal version of 1.4, you can > translate this to a package version of 1.4; it is a bit hackish but > will work if you handle epochs correctly. But if the package you > depend on has a Provides: blah (1.4), you have no way to map that to a > dependency, because you can't know what other versions of the package > will provide.
I am not sure to fully understand, could you provide a real-word example ? > > In all cases, it will be necessary to manually add shlibs-like > information to the packages; they could be partly autogenerated like > symbol files, but you need a mapping between provided modules and the > first version of the package that provides it. Is this related ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2006/01/msg00118.html _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
