At Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:06:31 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > > how are updates of library packages which are not visible in the > > application manager expected to work? We just noticed that when updating > > gpe-calendar the updated libeventdb does not get installed. libeventdb > > is visible because its section currently is "user/libs", so in this case > > i can install the update but what if the package is not visible? > > I think you just need to make sure that the main package includes > appropriate version number in the dependency declaration, not just the > library name; at least that seems to work for me.
That's a hack and a poor one at that. Versioned dependencies are used when the applications depends on a particular ABI version of a library. I think it is a bad idea to abuse this. What florian wants is `apt-get upgrade' functionality, i.e. install updates for any installed package. The application manager could use the following predicate to determine if an application is up to date: if and application and all of its dependencies (direct and indirect) are the latest version available (respecting APT::Default-Release and the pin settings, of course), it is up to date. This would cause a bit of confusion when a new version of a commonly used library, e.g., GTK+, becomes available as then pretty much all applications indirectly depend on it. These can be exclude by having a base system container. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
