At 13:57 Uhr -0400 20.04.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Max Horn wrote: > >> Also we uncovered this problem with the conversion to shlibs: So far, >> if you e.g. depend on audiofile, but already depend on FOO which >> already depended on that, you could just drop the audiofile >> dependency. But if now FOO is converted to BuildDepend on audiofile, >> and depend on audiofile-shlibs - you know have a problem! Ugh. >> >> This caught us in at least one case... We have to be careful... >> > >All the more reason to get this conversion done as soon as we can, IMHO.
Actually, no. All the more reason to change the way we did the conversions so far! >Otherwise we will have more and more packages which accidentally rely on >the old methods. The problem is: when you change a package to use splitoffs, you can potentially break many others packages! But it's not really the fault of the maintainers of these packages, they all used to work fine! Hence when something is changed to a splitoff, the one doing that should be responsible to check all affected pacakges and fix them if needed. There is a nice tool to help: "apt-cache showpkg PACKAGE" will show the reverse dependencies. Hence when one splitoffizes a package, one should check all reverse dependencies (and I mean *all* i.e. follow them thru), and check whether those potentially need an added BuildDepends. The easiest way is to just always add the BuildDepends, but of course it's more elegant to check whether it's actually needed. >Maybe we should ask all developers to do the following: Go through your >packages (particularly the ones in the stable tree), and use "otool -L" to >examine all of the binaries and libraries. Be sure to explicitly list >dependencies or BuildDependencies on all of the packages which provide the >libraries indicated there. > >Or is there a way we could partially automate this? Not really. See, if I my package is linked against libFOO, this doesn't mean I have to builddepend on FOO - maybe I acquired the link "indirect". Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
