Re: svgalibg1 | svgalibg-dummyg1 considered harmful
> > Your suggestion seems to be:
> >
> > - Both packages still Conflict&Replace each other.
> > - svgalib-dummyg1 doesn't anymore Provide: svgalibg1
> > - The shlibs file just contains "svgalibg1" as dependency
> > - Packages that can work with the dummy lib replace the dependency
> > somehow by "svgalibg1|svgalib-dummyg1".
>
> Yep.
Ok, then I'll do that in a next release of both packages (But, BTW, I
don't wanna be the svgalib maintainer!! :-).
> I agree it's not clean (I don't think it's desperately hard though,
> [except maybe for people who think debmake is the only way to
> package things]), but what's the alternative? The ludicrous
> situation where dpkg will happily allow you install a package which
> is functionally useless?
>
> And since it's only for 6 packages I think it should be done. (joeyh
> is the maintainer for 3 of those 6, and AIUI he is happy to do the
> requisite uncleanness)
You're right that it's the better way that dpkg doesn't allow you to
install stuff that cannot work at all. And I think I'll best provide
an example how to do it in debian/rules... :-)
Roman
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