On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Solutions: Either one allows gettext-dev to Depend on libiconv-dev (but this not only violates policy but may also break bootstrapping, because gettext-dev might be needed before libiconv is built), or all packages that are susceptible to be hit
That is never a solution and c an not be. Things are builddpeendsonly for a reason, in this case to support gettext 2 in the future.
Yes, but the problem is that gettext-dev de facto already has a kind of run-time dependency on libiconv-dev (whatever run-time means for libraries):
gettext-dev installs libintl.la, and this contains a line
dependency_libs=' -L/sw/lib /sw/lib/libiconv.la'
This is more than a mere BuildDepends should allow.
The deeper problem here is this whole libtool *.la stuff (not that I claim to understand how it is really working) that mimicks the dylib system, but without the sophisticated version number system with its difference between compile-time and run-time names.
-- Martin
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