On 5/8/07, Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:55:49PM +0900, AIDA Shinra wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I feel a bit flustrating a bit about versioned dependencies. > > > > * The 10.3 tree has gtk+2-2.6.10-4, while the 10.4 tree has > > gtk+2-2.6.10-1004. No differences between them except the Revision. > > Assume that a package wants to depend on the current gtk+2 and > > later. The 10.3 version of the package will depend on 2.6.10-4, while > > the 10.4 one will depend on 2.6.10-1004. What about giving Revision > > 1004 to 10.3's gtk+2? > > I think the first 2.6.10 fink packages actually were different on 10.3 > vs 10.4, so the different Revision was important. Now, I guess it just > feels weird to have the "high 10.4 Revision value" in 10.3. There are > several ppackages that no longer have 10.3/10.4 differences but have > maintained the Revision difference. It seems a bit rude to force 10.3 > users to rebuild a large package, so if we wanted to unify the > Revision, I'd urge waiting until pushing out an update (so the users > would be rebuilding anyway, not just for maintainer convenience). > > Note that just because there is a high Revision of gtk+2 in 10.4, > packages do not need a versioned dependency on it. As I understand the > 10.3 -> 10.4 upgrade, one only needs to specify the high-revision > dependency if there is a GCC field. > > dan > > -- > Daniel Macks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks > > Ah. Was incorrect in my assessment, then.
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