Re: pango1-xft2-ft219-dev-1.22.0-4
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Laszlo Ladanyi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Laszlo Ladanyi wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the info and the *very* fast response! >>> >>> >> >> <snip> >> >>> 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... >>> >> >> We do have Provides; they just don't carry any versioning. Last >> time I >> looked this was also true in Debian--e.g. there's no option for a >> specific >> version: >> >> Provides: foo-2.3-8 > > It's not that versioning is the problem in this case, rather that I > assumed that the -ft219 version of pango1-xft2 is compatible with the > original pango1-xft2. In cases where compatibility is true debian can > specify that even though this package is foo it provides bar since it > preserves compatibility with bar. Does fink have the same kind of > Provides field (for truly compatible packages)? > It does. > As Daniel pointed out, these packages are not compatible :-( > > I think it'd be worthwile to point this out in the info field which > only says "These packages link against fink's freetype219 instead of > the freetype that comes as part of x11. They also have cairo > support." Especially that there are pango1-xft2 and pango1-xft2-ft219 > packages, but there is only a pango1-xft2-ft219-dev package (the > corresponding non-ft219 package does not exist). > > Thanks, > --Laci It was removed so that maintainers would move their packages to pango1- xft2-ft219 (they couldn't build against pango1-xft2 anymore) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/