Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It just occurred to me that, with |, couldn't the user have the proper > version of libshishi0 installed, but an old version of, say, > libpam-shishi? The dependencies for shishi-dbg are satisfied via the > proper version of libshishi0, and the incorrect version of libpam-shishi > is not tested. Then debugging of libpam-shishi would fail, potentially > even in bad ways.
Yes. Of course, if the user wasn't interested in debugging libpam-shishi, they wouldn't notice. > The dependency relation that we want to express is that if any of the > shishi packages are installed, they must be of the same version as > shishi-dbg, if shishi-dbg is going to be installed. Is that even > possible with dpkg? Only with something like Conflicts, and I think that gets too ugly to be worth it and may lead to aptitude removing the wrong thing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
