please upload: puredata-import

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 22:05, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>>> <hans at at.or.at>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:18 +0000, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm confused. You make a change for puredata >= 0.43. Does this  
>>>>> break
>>>>> puredata <0.43? The Depends field suggests that (puredata-core  
>>>>> is non
>>>>> existent until 0.43). If so, the build-depends on puredata <<  
>>>>> 0.43 is
>>>>> wrong.
>>>>
>>>> puredata << 0.43 provides everything, headers, app, gui, doc,  
>>>> etc.  With
>>>> 0.43, the headers are in puredata-dev and puredata is a meta  
>>>> package
>>>> that installs everything.  I wanted to avoid having the package
>>>> Build-Depend on the whole suite of packages, that's why I added the
>>>> 0.43.  Plus in the future, puredata might no longer also install
>>>> puredata-dev.
>>>>
>>>>> Also, doesn't 0.43 bring in the required headers? I think the
>>>>> add_required_headers patch can be removed.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the puredata-dev 0.43 package does provide those headers,  
>>>> but I
>>>> wanted to leave in the patch for now to aid backporting and let  
>>>> the dust
>>>> settle on the big changes that happened with the puredata package  
>>>> being
>>>> split into puredata-gui, puredata-dev, puredata-core, etc.
>>>
>>> The package won't work unmodified anyways, since it Depends on
>>> puredata-core, which doesn't exist until 0.43. So strictly speaking
>>> the aid for backporting is incomplete (also, it installs into a
>>> different dir, so that would need to be changed too).
>>>
>>> I suggest just dropping the << 0.43 option, since it misleads into
>>> thinking it could actually work unchanged with 0.42.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please update the changelog. I have reviewed this and will upload
>>> tomorrow afternoon (GMT-4, so probably past midnight in europe).
>>
>>
>> Ok, makes sense, I removed the << 0.43 and pushed.
>
> Offering puredata as an option is wrong too (it still allows 0.42)


Yes, good point.  I also now realized that a backport would also mean  
changing the installed folder, since the puredata 0.43 package suite  
installs into /usr/lib/puredata now, while puredata 0.42 installed  
into /usr/lib/pd

.hc


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