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On Nov 1, 2004, at 12:07 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Dear Fink developers,
In the course of working to update several of fink's "essential" packages, some of us have come to realize that we need a policy change: we need packages to explicitly declare their dependencies on essential packages.
The contrary policy -- that packages should *not* declare dependencies on essential packages -- has been part of the lore of Fink for some time, although I do not believe it is written down anywhere. I plan to add the new policy to the packaging manual if there are no objections to it.
The packages of immediate concern are the essential shared libraries, contained in the apt-shlibs, bzip2-shlibs, gettext, libiconv and ncurses-shlibs packages. We will be upgrading two of these packages soon, and would eventually like to deprecate gettext and ncurses-shlibs in favor of gettext3-shlibs and libncurses5-shlibs, respectively. We can't do that deprecation unless folks declare their dependencies on the existing libraries.
Would it be admissible for anyone with cvs write access to update these essential deps? I think it would be a great idea to add some unique string to DescPackaging or something so that we could grep for it to see what files have not been updated. Something like EssentialsDeclared on a line of it's own. Thoughts?
- -chris zubrzycki
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