Bruce:
We can make your proposal simpler by using virtual package names to
find the libraries.[ eg Provides: libX11.so.6 ]
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As it stands there are a couple of problems:
[...] we need to depend on a particular version of the package
[...] some packages
Please read the proposal below and comment on it. If noone says
anything I'll probably implement and mandate something very like it in
the next week or two, in time for the new source package format (we
only want to change this once). Now is the time to have your say.
I've been thinking about
I propose the following arrangement (if you don't understand things
you should read dpkg-source(1) and the relevant parts of the new
programmers' manual):
Every package which contains compiled binaries invokes, in its
debian/rules, a program which automatically determines what the
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