Re: pango1-xft2-ft219-dev-1.22.0-4

Thanks for the info and the *very* fast response!

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:37:17PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:
>> >
>> > It would be nice if this package (and the other pango1-xft2-ft219-...
>> > packages) would specify that it provides pango1-xft2-dev, since other
>> > packages depend on the latter naming. True, those packages can change
>> > their dependency as well, but specifying the provides field here
>> > would be a nice gesture towards other packages.
>>
>> We don't have libraries do Provides: , because of the potential for
>> unexpected behavior and breakage (and versioning in Provides doesn't
>> exist in our Debian toolset, so that can add more difficulties).

I guess I should have delved more into fink's details... :-( When I
got to the point that it's dpkg based I assumed that there are
Provides...

>
> To elaborate, the lib that the -ft219 packages supply are not the same
> as and are known to be incompatible in some respects to those in the
> non -ft219 packages. It's really critical to know what you're getting
> at all times, otherwise you'll have really *no* idea what you're
> getting and no way to "work correctly" with it.
>
> Several months ago, I audited the whole package collection and found
> no packages that still used the non -ft219 libs. If you find some in
> the current stable or unstable distros that use pango1-xft2-dev,
> please let us know.

Yes, there are such packages (that's why I posted) :-).
perlmagick-pm586 (and pm588) depend on pango1-xft2-dev.

>
> dan
>
> --
> Daniel Macks
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>
>

Thanks again,
--Laci

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