[Pkg-freeciv-devel] more packages

Jason Dorje Short jdorje@users.sf.net
Fri, 03 Sep 2004 20:44:05 -0400


Thomas Ledet wrote:
> Jason Dorje Short wrote:

>> However adding tilesets that will become obsolete quickly probably 
>> isn't a good idea.  If upgrading freeciv requires removing 5 tileset 
>> packages that isn't so good.
> 
> 
> I agree. Which tilesets were you planning on adding?

Next up I think is Engels and Hires.  Personally I like Engels a lot, 
and both of these used to be included in the core distribution so 
they're more likely to be wanted.

>> There was one problem with the dependencies.  Tilesets depend on 
>> having the right version of freeciv-data and freeciv-client (>=1.14, 
>> <<1.15). But it seems a dependency on freeciv-client isn't possible 
>> since this is a virtual package.
> 
> That is a problem, since virtual packages don't have versions. However, 
> won't letting it depend on freeciv-data pretty much solve the problem as 
> such anyway?

No doubt.

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Question: how do the changelog files need to be updated?  For every 
change in the repository?  Or just when packages are uploaded?  Is this 
supposed to be automated?

jason