working towards Subsurface 2.0

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Sep 6 22:43:42 PDT 2012


On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
>> I am wondering - assuming you are the package maintainer of BOTH
>> libdivecomputer and subsurface - shouldn't you be able to ensure that
>> at any point of time there are always two matching versions of the
>> packages installed? 
> 
> In the rpm world that would be no problem and I have no doubt that the
> deb world can do the same.
> You just need to specify
> Requires: libdivecomputer >= 1.0.abcd...

Well, that may not be sufficient - we've had several times now where a newer version of
libdivecomputer breaks a build of subsurface. So the question is "can you keep them in 
lock-step?".

/D


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