On 02/03/10 13:49, Dan McGee wrote:
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hmmm...
pacman -U libjpeg-8a-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz loading package data... checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: ghostscript: requires libjpeg>=8 :: imlib2: requires libjpeg>=8 :: jasper: requires libjpeg>=8 :: libdjvu: requires libjpeg>=8 ....
To avoid this, I will be renumbering it to libjpeg-8.0.1 (which is the soname version).
This is for alpha, beta, etc. purposes. I think I broke this once thus the reason I added the small vercmp test suite.
I know. I was just pointing out some fun with package versioning. I did not even think about that issue until I tried installing the package. If only the collective upstream would figure out haw to version software consistently... Allan