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Re: debathena-pidgin-wrapper pre-hardy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Nov 12 09:52:41 2008

To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:52:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20081112063324.GO20760@vinegar-pot.mit.edu> (Greg Price's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:33:24 -0500")
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Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I think that means for debathena-workstation to depend on
> debathena-pidgin-wrapper only on the releases that have a 'pidgin'
> package.

I believe depending on

    debathena-pidgin-wrapper | gaim (<< 1:2.0.0+fake)

should make it universally installable, at the cost of potentially
confusing users by pulling in an UNcustomized gaim on older
distributions (anything prior to lenny or gutsy).

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