bundle plasma packages together

[Scarlett Moore]

On Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:37:59 PM MST Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Sandro,
> 
> thanks for the ideas, that is much appreciated.
> Yes, the interdeps are a pain, and have obviously changed a lot since
> 5.17.
> 
> Personally I prefer
> 
> > Remove symbols files, so the dependencies are generated by shlibs and use
> > some logic in rules to generate blocking dependencies. Downside with this
> > approach is the same like for option 1 but at least no manual step to
> > update the version is needed.
> Another idea is to
> - introduce a "plasma-base" package (Debian only)
> - every plasma package depends on plasma-base == 5.19 (major.minor)
> 
> Wouldn't that suffice already to force that all packages are at the same
> major.minor version?
> 
> Bumping a version would require changes in the deps (needs to be done
> anyway), and when all are ready a bump of plasma-base.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
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This sounds like it could work. Something has to change, my head is spinning.
Scarlett

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