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

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.gnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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)

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