To Require or not to Require?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Your whole argument is just void.  There is not a single difference
> > between "external" packages and (sub-)packages.
> There is one difference: with subpackages it is trivial to write a
> Requires: that 1) is always strict enough and 2) is always satisfied.
> For external packages achieving both requires non-trivial human
> effort.

Not at all. The simplest thing to do is to ensure that any binary 
depends on at least the version of any libraries it was linked against, 
which is the way Debian handle this in the absence of maintainer 
overrides.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org