Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: [libpaperg contains binaries also needed by libpaper -> libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is undesired] > The possible solutions are: > > SOLUTION 1 (Suggested by Wichert) > - > Create the packages: >libpaper -

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think I'm failing to follow something basic here. Does paperconf depend on the libc6 shared libraries? If so, there is no way one could use the binaries without loading libpaperg, right? Secondly, Hamm is supoposed to be libc6. >>"Marco" == Marco Pistore <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
On 5 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I think I'm failing to follow something basic here. Does paperconf > depend on the libc6 shared libraries? If so, there is no way one > could use the binaries without loading libpaperg, right? > > Secondly, Hamm is supoposed to be li

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: > > SOLUTION 4 > > Let the programs be in both packages, but use dpkg's diversions to "move > away" the libc5 binaries when libpaperg is installed and remove the > diversions on remove of libpaperg. Only drawbac

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Marco Pistore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now, in hamm the binaries are only in libpaperg, since they are linked > against libc6 libraries; package libpaper in hamm contains only the > libraries. So, the original cause of the problem is that the binaries were in the library package. The pol

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-11 Thread Marco Pistore
On 11 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > Marco Pistore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Now, in hamm the binaries are only in libpaperg, since they are linked > > against libc6 libraries; package libpaper in hamm contains only the > > libraries. > > So, the original cause of the problem is t