Hi, On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > A virtual package is a good idea, though - in fact, it's such a good idea > that I remember now we discussed this back at DebConf and I'd subsequently > forgotten about it. Thanks for jogging my memory! :) Yes, whether or not > we add support in a stable point release, I think that if we don't go the > dpkg-shlibdeps route we should use a 'multiarch' or 'multiarch-foo' virtual > package.
But you would put those Pre-Depends: multiarch-foo on the (core) libraries that should not disappear, right? It seems cleaner to put it there rather than on utilities. I would also favor any solution that doesn't involve any shlibs bump in libc. We've gone to great length to have symbols support in many libraries, it would be a pity to lose the benefits due to multi-arch (even if multi-arch is great too!). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110224125557.ga21...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
