[Pkg-running-devel] New CycloGraph release ready for packaging

[Federico Brega]

Il 24/ott/2013 22:14 "Ralf Treinen" <treinen at free.fr> ha scritto:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Federico Brega wrote:
> > I packaged the latest release but, I have a doubt about how to proceed:
the
> > packages currently in debian have a dependency only on the package
name. It
>
> You mean as in the following ?
>
> Package: cyclograph-qt4
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${misc:Depends},
>          cyclograph,

Yes, exactly.

> > would be safer to depend on packages built from the same source as it
is the
> > only tested combination. Is it okay if I put this in the new version or
it
> > would be better to release a new debian version and then another with
the
> > upstream release?
>
> I think the way to do that would be cyclograph (=${binary:Version}). On
the
> other hand this shouldn't be done needlessly. Do you have a reason to
> assume that using cyclograph with cyclograph-* of different versions would
> break, for instance because interfaces usually change between versions ?
> If this isn't the case then only the fact that combinations of different
> versions haven't been tested is probably not reason enough to narrow
> the dependencies.

The interfaces aren't guaranteed to be compatible across different
versions.
Sometimes they change and there isn't any effort to avoid it. I'd like to
avoid
issues caused by mixed installations as much as possible so I agree about
your solution.

I'm still not sure about making a new debian package only for this reason.

--

Federico
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