On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:55:36AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes:
> > Le dimanche 15 mars 2009 à 01:30 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > >> Say you have acrobat reader installed which depend on ia32-libs-gtk. > >> You also have libgtk2.0 (i386) installed with a newer version that > >> breaks acrobat reader (like it did last year). Then acrobat reader > >> will use the newer libgtk and break despide the dependencies all being > >> correct. > > How is it any different from acrobat on i386 breaking when you upgrade > > GTK+ the same way? > Depends: ia32-libs-gtk (<= 2.6) Where is the package that does this? How does this package know, a priori, that the next version of libgtk2.0 will break it? It's considered a bug if a library breaks its public interfaces without changing soname; consequently it would also be a bug for this package to second-guess libgtk. > Also some libraries do have conffiles or binaries and will get into a > file conflict with or without the multiarch library path. They need a > Replaces/Conflicts line anyway. Chief among them libc6 (i386) > vs. libc6-i386. That's true, but not a reason to cause file conflicts for all the other biarch packages out there. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
