[1281] in athena10
Re: Building our own mit-scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Mar 5 12:05:09 2009
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:04:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903050803590.10246@geminorum.mit.edu> (Geoffrey Thomas's message of "Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:13:39 -0500 (EST)")
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Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU> writes:
> For upstream, I think all we need to do is make libltdl7 Provide:
> libltdl3,
Is that actually appropriate? For -dev packages, it merely indicates
that the API hasn't changed incompatibly, but for runtime packages it
would mean that the library's name and ABI also haven't changed, which
seems unlikely -- the rename presumably happened for a good reason.
(Also, provides don't help for versioned dependencies, which are
common on runtime libraries.)
> It's possible that rebuilding can make it link against libltdl7
> directly, too.
I should hope so; if not, that *is* a bug in the libtool packaging.
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