Re: [Fink-devel] Validation tests for BuildDependsOnly

[D. M. <dm...@ne...>]

I think that this is exactly one of the cases we should be rooting out 
(and that we are not currently able to detect). We do still have some 
packages that are static-only libraries and maybe some executables, and 
especially if also executables other packages tend to Depends on them. 
That makes it difficult to upgrade them to be shared or for 
backward-incompatible new libversions even if still static-only. 

dan

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:57:59 -0800, "David R. Morrison" 
<dr...@fi...> wrote:
My recollection of the original idea was that there might be a package 
with binaries, static libs, and headers all together.  I dont know if 
there are any such left, but if there are, they will need to be 
splitoffized to separate the binaries (should this change be made). 
>
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> On Jan 24, 2012, at 3:29 PM, "Daniel Macks" <dm...@ne...> wrote:
>
> > The requirement for a BDO tag in .info kicks in when a .deb has 
> both a shared library and a header file. Why is the shared library 
> required? Seems like having headers already means it's used by the 
> compiler. It might be a headers-only template library or other set of 
> macros, or the library with the headers might be static-only. In 
> either of those cases, I think the package would only be used as a 
> BuildDepends (not Depends) and that it should *not* be a Depends in 
> order to allow swapping of different interface-versions of it. Any 
> objections to knocking the heuristic for "BDO required" down to 
> *just* "header files"?
> > > This came up after a #fink discussion where we found that 
> frameworks are not flagged for requiring BDO, even though they may 
> contain "non-libversioned" files for use by others compiling against 
> them. That's the situation that BDO is designed to signify, and 
> therefore prevent Depends deadlocks when swapping different 
> libversions. So, while we're working on BDO, should it also be 
> required when a .framework contains non-libversioned files?
> > > dan
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