On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:35:33PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > [I think that some version of the original message should be posted at
> > some point to -devel-announce, probably once the new dpkg-shlibdeps is
> > installed in woody. We also might need some NMUs if this occurs
> > during the potato freeze and many developers are working on frozen
> > rather than unstable machines.]
>
> I'll post a full explanation there once this is accepted and the new
> dpkg is about to be uploaded. This will definitely not be done in
> potato, I've been postponing this on purpose for that reason.
Sorry -- I wasn't clear. I meant that if this change is made to woody
during the period of the potato freeze, then ....
> > Obvious solution: the shlibs file in any library package (say libbar
> > in this example) must declare a dependency: libbar (>=version number)
> > where the version number must be *at least the first version which was
> > packaged using the new dpkg-shlibdeps*. Then when foo is compiled
> > against libbar in woody, it will depend upon the woody libbar, and
> > thus bring into play all of the sub-dependencies.
>
> Sounds like the proper upgrade procedure. I didn't put this in the
> proposal since it shouldn't be part of the policy itself but of an
> accompanying transition process.
Absolutely! But as we discovered with the FHS transition, this is as
important as (if not more so than) the actual policy.
In the meantime, modulo having a workable transition procedure ready
before the release of the new dpkg, I second the proposal.
Julian
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