On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:08:12PM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:30, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > > On 07/02/2006 at 10:21 Matt Zimmerman wrote...
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > > Would it not be better to depend on php4 or php5 rather than force
> > > > > people
> > > > > to upgrade to PHP5?
> > > >
> > > > Possibly, but it is quite tricky to express this correctly using the
> > > > available dependency relationships.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This works for me.
> > > Depends: ${misc:Depends}, php4 (>= 4.1.0) | php5 | php4-cgi (>=
> > > 4.1.0) | php5-cgi, php4-pgsql (>= 4.1.0) | php4-mysql (>= 4.1.0) |
> > > php5-mysql |
> > > php5-pgsql, php4-gd | php5-gd, apache | httpd, php4-cli | php5-cli,
> > > wwwconfig-common (>= 0.0.7), mimetex
> I've moved to something like this and left to the user the responsibility to
> get
> a sensible set of packages. If I get bug reports which are caused by these
> "loose" Depends: I'll move to the Depends: to php5 too.
If that doesn't work out, another possible solution would be to provide
-php4 and -php5 flavours (or metapackages for the dependencies).
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- mdz
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