Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I know, but as written before, IMHO the abi version number should > not be encoded in the package name. Usually you just get a new > abi, but no new functionality, so why introduce a new name? Just > to work around the limitations of

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> >>>But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing >>>different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each >>>dependency chain the abi version number must b

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >>But I can follow your argument. Dpkg should allow installing >>different C++ abis on the same machine. Only within each >>dependency chain the abi version number must be unique, so >>it should become some kind of packag

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> A single C++-ABI package would just mean that all c++ packages are >> kept back (or removed) from the very start of the c++ transition up to >> the very end. There will be a lot of packages at the end of the >> dependen

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > A single C++-ABI package would just mean that all c++ packages are > kept back (or removed) from the very start of the c++ transition up to > the very end. There will be a lot of packages at the end of the > dependency chains that you don't have installed and that w

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> yes >> >> welcome to the c++ abi transition >> >> > Maybe this has been suggested before, but... > > Probably more C++ abi changes will follow. To support a > smooth migration I would like to suggest to create empty > pa

Re: Dependency problems with Xorg

2005-07-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > yes > > welcome to the c++ abi transition > > Maybe this has been suggested before, but... Probably more C++ abi changes will follow. To support a smooth migration I would like to suggest to create empty packages describing the C++ abis. A package maintainer could