Dummy packages for feature dependencies

2002-11-28 Thread Andrew Chadwick
If a packaged program contains a Suggests:ed feature that is linked at runtime when a user does something special, perhaps via dlopen(3), then the program may appear to fail mysteriously if the library the feature depends on has different calling conventions or symbols from the one the program

Re: Dummy packages for feature dependencies

2002-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 16:11, Andrew Chadwick a écrit : Would it make sense for these cases to be covered by extra debian packages, perhaps with a -feature suffix to the name, which contain concrete dependencies? That way the admin will be able to assure his users that an upgrade won't