[Pkg-samba-maint] libldb depends expression

[Mathieu Parent]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 9:14 AM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> 02.04.2022 09:59, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> ..
> > Yes, but to support binNMUs, you may need to use a range anyway
> > (I've read the below doc without clear understanding).
>
> No :)
>
> Since whole samba package is being recompiled (be it NMU or not),
> we end up with exactly the same versions of all binary packages
> (with an amendment to ldb version complexity, but it too includes
> complete samba binary package version with all suffixes), so we
> sure can use the equality expression against version here.
> This is what we use for a long time in make_shlibs WRT the
> internal .so.0 libraries (the second step), - these are always
> from the same _build_.  With NMU, everything gets recompiled,
> and everything gets a new version suffix.
>
> The thing is that we don't break binary packages built from
> *other* sources, that's the whole difference. We may sure
> use exact =version expression in dependencies between binary
> packages built from single source. Think libfoo1 vs libfoo-dev
> for example, they use =binary:Version for a reason.

Yes, got it!

> ...
> > OK.
>
> Mathieu, if you can spare some time, please take a look at
> what's happening on the salsa samba master branch, maybe
> look at `git log -p'. You're familiar with the package, and
> I'm really interested in hearing some feedback from you.
> I found some.. interesting things in there, like mishandling
> of shlibdeps (that was really shocking for me to discover),
> or moving various (python) bits between samba, samba-libs
> and python3-samba (also quite shocking, I moved *all*
> python stuff to python3-samba now).

Lookig now ...

-- 
Mathieu