On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 10:37:45PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Dan, > I think we should follow Debian's lead here. They are in the process > of depreciating out their libglut3 package in favor of freeglut. They have > replaced their old libglut3 package, based on the old non-free version, with > a dummy package that depends on freeglut as a transitional mechanism. It > appears they aren't worrying that much about binary compatibility since > they are making sure all the packages that use glut are revised to build > against the new freeglut package (explicitly or through the dummy package).
I've already explained why it appears that freeglut(-shlibs) is not a drop-in replacement for glut(-shlibs) and should not have Provides: for it, therefore a dummy glut:Depends:freeglut is a similarly-flawed proposal. > Since we will get the same clean break with our 10.4 release, Huh? Upgrading to 10.4 will not necessitate a clean fink install. If we've got some package that provides a "newer" version of a file that is in some other package but this newer file really is a "clean break" from the old, it seems pretty silly that it's got the same name. I *really* don't want to reinvent the whole freetype* mess again. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
