[Debian-med-packaging] BioJava Provides [Was: r10959 - trunk/packages/biojava/trunk/debian]

[Olivier Sallou]

Le 5/23/12 2:45 PM, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Olivier Sallou <osallou at alioth.debian.org> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 12:34:17 +0000
> From: Olivier Sallou <osallou at alioth.debian.org>
> To: debian-med-commit at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: r10959 - trunk/packages/biojava/trunk/debian
>
> Author: osallou
> Date: 2012-05-23 12:34:16 +0000 (Wed, 23 May 2012)
> New Revision: 10959
>
> ...
> Log:
> prepare for release 1.8, add a build.xml for ant build
>
> Modified: trunk/packages/biojava/trunk/debian/control
> ===================================================================
> @@ -16,7 +17,7 @@
>  Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/biojava/trunk/
>  Homepage: http://www.biojava.org
>  
> -Package: libbiojava1.7-java
> +Package: libbiojava1.8-java
>  Architecture: all
>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
>   libcommons-pool-java (>= 1.1),
> @@ -25,8 +26,6 @@
>   libhsqldb-java,
>   libbytecode-java
>  Suggests: java-virtual-machine, libjgrapht-java, libbiojava-java, libbiojava-java-doc
> -Conflicts: libbiojava1.6-java
> -Replaces: libbiojava1.6-java
> ...
>
>
> I wonder whether we should add a virtual package
>
>   Provides: libbiojava1-java
>
> for BioJava 1.x versions and respectively either
>
>   Provides: libbiojava3-java
>
> or
>
>   Provides: libbiojava-java
>
> for 3.x versions.  This way we could easily Depend from libbiojava?-java
> in other packages without always specifying the specific version number.
Previous versions had libbiojava-java, so for continuity/compatibility,
I think libbiojava-java shold be kept for version 1 per default.
Version 3 could provide libbiojava3-java
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>

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