For the library packaging policy as discussed previously this is an
example on how to fix an offending package. We take the example of
curl, as we have (ick) compat-curl2 and compat-curl3 packages alread,
which is a mess.
Curl currently is split into curl providing the /usr/bin/curl binrary
and
Richard Guenther wrote:
> For the library packaging policy as discussed previously this is an
> example on how to fix an offending package. We take the example of
> curl, as we have (ick) compat-curl2 and compat-curl3 packages alread,
> which is a mess.
:-( But yes, you're right, it's a bit messy
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > For the library packaging policy as discussed previously this is an
> > example on how to fix an offending package. We take the example of
> > curl, as we have (ick) compat-curl2 and compat-curl3 packages alread,
> > which is a
Hi,
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
> > The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4
> > package with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries.
>
> While you're at it, cosider splittig a curl-ca-bundle or curl-data or
> whatever, containing the file /usr/share/curl/cu
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
>
> > > The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4
> > > package with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries.
> >
> > While you're at it, cosider splittig a curl-ca-bundle or curl-da
Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
>
>> Richard Guenther wrote:
>>> The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4 package
>>> with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries.
>> While you're at it, cosider splittig a curl-ca-bundle or curl-data or
>> w
Michal Marek wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Do old curl libraries work with a new file?
>
> Yes, in fact the filename is just passed to openSSL, curl doesn't care
> about the content. And yes, the compat-curl* packages have been broken
> from the begining, because they don't depend on the pa
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Michal Marek wrote:
> >
> >> Richard Guenther wrote:
> >>> The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4 package
> >>> with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries.
> >> While you're at it,
Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Michal Marek wrote:
>> Richard Guenther wrote:
>>> Do old curl libraries work with a new file?
>> Yes, in fact the filename is just passed to openSSL, curl doesn't care
>> about the content. And yes, the compat-curl* packages have been broken
>> from the begining, because the
On 2007-04-03 11:48:25 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> I have splitted off a curl-ca-bundle package and depend on that from
> libcurl4 now. For old compat libraries like libcurl3 I'll just depend
> on /usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt instead.
please use package dependencies when possible. they
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2007-04-03 11:48:25 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > I have splitted off a curl-ca-bundle package and depend on that from
> > libcurl4 now. For old compat libraries like libcurl3 I'll just depend
> > on /usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt instead.
Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The library packaging policy forces you to rename curl-devel to
> either libcurl-devel or libcurl4-devel if you want to support development
> with different curl versions. We choose not to and rename it to
> libcurl-devel which will depend on libcur
Matthias Koenig wrote:
> It is stated in
> http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Dependencies
> in the section "Renaming a package", that the old package name in the
> Provides tag should be versioned.
> The example given is:
>
> Name: package
> Version: 1.1
> Requires:
> Provides: pac
Michal Marek wrote:
> But if for whatever reason someone needs curl-devel = 7.16.1, should
> this dependency be satisfied by _any_ future version of libcurl-devel?
>
> Obsoleting just curl-devel <= 7.16.1 is a good idea.
And also adding a simple comment, e. g. "curl-devel was last used in
openSU
Michal Marek wrote:
> Matthias Koenig wrote:
>> It is stated in
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Dependencies
>> in the section "Renaming a package", that the old package name in the
>> Provides tag should be versioned.
>> The example given is:
>>
>> Name: package
>> Version: 1.1
>> Re
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