RFU: vdrift 0.0.2006.02.21-1

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> On 5/25/06, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:
>> Le Samedi 13 Mai 2006 23:07, Bruno Kleinert a écrit:
>> > btw, i committed a little change to vdrift-data, so it recommends
>> > vdrift, now, instead of depending on it.
>>
>> Does an official policy exist about that? In fact i prefere to keep
>> the "depends" to be sure that vdrift-data will be removed with vdrift.
>>
>
> That induces a circular dependency, and there might be other games (at
> some point) that could use vdift's data files.
>
> IMHO there is no need to depend on the binary, apt frontends should
> discover packages in such situation (aptitude does this).
>   
apt-get doesn't and i can't imagine a new game that depends on 
vdrift-data since this is not an official tarball. Maybe a different 
flavor of the package like vdrift-sdl or vdrift-oss will be create. In 
this case we can update vdrift-data depends.

Regards,

    Gonér