[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#770406: libv8-3.14.5: Add libv8 virtual package with dep on latest libv8-#.#.#.

[Jérémy Lal]

Le jeudi 20 novembre 2014 à 17:45 -0800, Joseph Coffland a écrit :
> Package: libv8-3.14.5
> Version: 3.14.5.8-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libv8-3.14.5 depends on:
> ii  libc6       2.19-10
> ii  libgcc1     1:4.9.1-12
> ii  libstdc++6  4.9.1-12
> 
> libv8-3.14.5 recommends no packages.
> 
> libv8-3.14.5 suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> Adding a virtual package named libv8 will make it much easier to create packages which depend on libv8.
> 
> I'm having a problem with a binary package I've created which depends on libv8.  If I specify a dependency on
> libv8-3.14.5 directly then my package wont install on some systems.  If I leave out the dep then my software
> wont run with out the user manually searching for the latest version of libv8 and installing it.
> 
> Please help.

Your package won't install on some systems anyway, since libv8 does not
build/run on all architectures.
>From what you say it looks like your package dependency on libv8 is
optional ? If that's the case then use a Recommends or Suggests
relationship in debian/control.

Jérémy.