On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:57:43PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > Does someone remember why lib*-ocaml needs to depend on > ocaml-base-X.Y? I received a mail from a libsdl-ocaml > user who think that this is not requred.
libfoo-ocaml should depend on ocaml-base, since the corresponding files in that package, which are only the dll.so stub libraries and nothing more if i remember well, are totally useless without ocaml-base. This does not apply to libfoo-ocaml-dev. $ dpkg -L libsdl-ocaml /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libsdl-ocaml /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/HISTORY /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/README /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/copyright /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libsdl-ocaml/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib /usr/lib/ocaml /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07 /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlloaderstub.so /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlmixerstub.so /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlstub.so /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07/stublibs/dllsdlttfstub.so So, i seriously doubt what use would be those dll.so libraries without ocaml-base. It doesn't really need to be a dependency, more to the contrary, ocaml-base and libsdl-ocaml using bytecode should depend on libsdl-ocaml, but that would not be practical. What was the rationale of said user ? Friendly, Sven Luther
