Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:37:23PM +0200, Francis Tyers wrote: Heh, actually there is an ambiguity there... I should have spotted it. What I mean is: Add the specific dependence in each language package to apertium and not to libpcre3. The language packages already depend on apertium, but

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Francis Tyers [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:25:47 +0200]: Yep, this is the case, it includes pre-compiled regular expressions and these appear to be incompatible between versions of pcre. Ok. [...snip...] then set a Depend in the language packages to that particular version of apertium, then

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Francis Tyers
El vie, 24-10-2008 a las 00:06 +0200, Adeodato Simó escribió: * Francis Tyers [Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:47:20 +0200]: Hi, Hello, Francis. The bug is that the language packages require a specific version of libpcre to function. Could you explain a bit the technical background for this?

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Francis Tyers
El sáb, 25-10-2008 a las 18:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó escribió: * Francis Tyers [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:25:47 +0200]: Yep, this is the case, it includes pre-compiled regular expressions and these appear to be incompatible between versions of pcre. Ok. [...snip...] then set a Depend

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Francis Tyers
El sáb, 25-10-2008 a las 18:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó escribió: * Francis Tyers [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:25:47 +0200]: Yep, this is the case, it includes pre-compiled regular expressions and these appear to be incompatible between versions of pcre. Ok. [...snip...] then set a Depend

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Francis Tyers [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:37:23 +0200]: Hi again, Heh, actually there is an ambiguity there... I should have spotted it. What I mean is: Add the specific dependence in each language package to apertium and not to libpcre3. The language packages already depend on apertium, but

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:57:55 +0200]: Package: apertium Provides: apertium-pcre-1 And then, each time you detect a new incompatible version of pcre, you make apertium Provide: apertium-pcre-2. This is of course fragile, so you may want to go for: Package: apertium

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas Weber
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:25:47PM +0200, Francis Tyers wrote: We've come up with a better solution, which is to add dependencies to the apertium package, and then make the apertium package depend on a particular version of pcre3. It's safer this way, as I can't find out anything about

Re: RC bug for 10 packages

2008-10-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Francis Tyers [Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:47:20 +0200]: Hi, Hello, Francis. The bug is that the language packages require a specific version of libpcre to function. Could you explain a bit the technical background for this? Do the data files in the language packages embed any data that is