[Pkg-electronics-devel] RFS: NEW: geda-gaf 1.6.0-1

Hamish Moffatt hamish at debian.org
Sun Dec 6 12:18:17 UTC 2009


On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:48:59PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> I thought of it for a while, here's what I see:
> 
> 1. It is not right to add libgeda33 to Conflicts of geda-symbols, 
> because they do not actually conflict (meaning that there are no common 
> files between them)

Conflicting files is not the only reason to use Conflicts - if the
packages don't work together, that is also sufficient reason. I believe
that is the case here?

> 2. As far as I understand, geda-symbols is not used by itself, it is 
> used by some other geda-* tool (such as gschem or so), since geda-* 
> packages depend on libgeda38, hence I don't see that there will be a 
> problem. Meaning that since a geda-* 1.6.0 package depends on:
> geda-symbols (>= 1:1.5.1), geda-symbols (<< 1:1.7.0~) and also 
> libgeda38, hence, practically both of geda-symbols 1.6.0 & libgeda38 
> will be actually pulled by apt-get/aptitude to get this geda-* package. 
> I hope I was able to make myself clear.

That sounds logical.


Hamish



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