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[Stefan Sobernig]

Frankie,

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Stefan
> Sobernig<stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>>> I think that it would be better to use debian/control and introduce
>>> dependency on aolserver abi using some custom substitution variable.
>>> Something like the following:
>>>
>>> Depends: xotcl (>= ${binary:Version}), ${aolserver4-core-aolabi}
>>>
>>> in debian/control
>> well, here frankie can probably answer best ...
>>
>>> echo aolserver4-core-aolabi=aolserver4-core-$(AOLVER)-$(AOLABI)
>>>>> debian/aolserver4-xotcl.substvars
>> though the idea is to obtain the version and abi numbers from
>> a makefile fragment provided by aolserver4-dev and not within the same
>> package (e.g., aolserver4-xotcl).
> 
> The variables $(AOLVER) and $(AOLABI) should be defined in included
> debian.mak from aolserver4-dev. So, you don't loose anything here.

i missed that, right.

@frankie: what do you think? it would spare us fiddling around with 
generating debian/control in the pre-dep phase, wouldn't it?

//s