Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Ok. I'm uploading a new package with the fixes we have so far. We can always come back to this issue later, if it turns out to be any real problem. /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-shishi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-shishi
