Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot:
> network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd
> plugin.

Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a
versioned Breaks against ppp.
This is deliberate, since network-manager does not strictly need ppp.
The versioned Breaks is there to ensure that breakage due to a new ppp
upstream version with changed plugin path does not go unnoticed.
Unfortunately it seems ppp changes its plugin dir with every new
upstream release.


network-manager-pptp is different, since this network-manager plugin
strictly requires ppp, so it uses a versioned Depends.

> I was also considering writing a debhelper plugin and/or dh_ppp_plugin
> script to help with calculating the correct dependencies at build time,
> so that packages can simply invoke the script at build-time and Do The
> Right Thing. It could also be used to obtain the correct plugin
> directory to install plugins into, which seems like it would be useful
> for network-manager-pptp among others. Does this sound like a useful
> addition?

Shipping a .pc file upstream to get the correct plugin directory (and
build flags) sounds like a useful addition.


The question I would ask myself, is if ppp has to break the ABI for its
plugins with each new upstream release? Is there actually an ABI break
in 2.4.7?


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