[pkg-kde-talk] Re: kdelibs4c2a <-> kdelibs-bin circular dependency - advice requested

[Adeodato Simó]

* Christopher Martin [Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:42:27 -0500]:

> Yes, that would work. But I view this as more complex than necessary. Given 
> the answers to 1), 2) and 3), I view merging kdelibs-bin into kdelibs4c2a 
> as simpler, and involving virtually no work on the part of 3rd party 
> maintainers (only a handful of packages depend on kdelibs-bin directly, and 
> the new kdelibs4c2a can Provide: kdelibs-bin).

> Since the separation between kdelibs-bin and kdelibs4c2a is not functional 
> (i.e. they are always used together) keeping them apart seems unnecessary, 
> and (as far as I can tell) only satisfies the notion that libraries and 
> programs should be separate, even when, in this case, they are not used 
> separately. But if people view my solution as too radical, then your 
> proposal seems OK at first consideration.

  Weeell, it'd be an option, but then we have this liiittle section from
  Policy:

  8.2. Run-time support programs
  ------------------------------

     If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
     shared library you must not put them in the shared library package.
     If you do that then you won't be able to install several versions of
     the shared library without getting filename clashes.

     Instead, either create another package for the runtime binaries (this
     package might typically be named `<libraryname>-runtime'; note the
     absence of the <soversion> in the package name), or if the development
     package is small, include them in there.

  Note the "must not"...

  Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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