On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 18:39 -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 5:25 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:53:00AM +0800, Darwin Bautista wrote:
Hi all,
Attached is a patch to add "autoversion of dependencies" in makepkg. I think the usage of the term "autoversion" is a little vague but I can't of any other term. Anyway, autoversioning will save package maintainers a lot of time in adding and bumping the minimum required versions of a certain package's dependencies directly in the PKGBUILD. Of course, this autoversioning can be overridden by directly specifying the minimum/maximum (if ever)/exact version of a dep. Autoversioning can be disabled by using these opts: '-v' or '--nodepsver'.
I've seen quite a lot of packages (extra, community) which have "out-dated" or wrong minimum versions of the deps. For instance, I've seen a package (which I can't remember) of a KDE app built against KDE 3.5.8 yet the specified minimum version is 3.5.7 (or older?). This can help prevent bugs resulting from this seemingly subtle issue.
Hm I hoped someone would reply to this. I thought it might be interesting, but I don't really know. Could you please file this as a feature request on flyspray? A mail on the ML is likely to be forgotten rapidly, while a feature request would stay there.
Well, I will be unpopular again:
1. First of all, I think that our maintainers should set dependencies by hand, because this autoversion stuff just guarantees that the generated dependency is a satisfier, but it may be too strict (for example currently it generates 'a52dec>=0.7.4-3' from a52dec and maybe simple 'a52dec' or 'a52dec>=0.7' would be enough)
I agree. Previous versions may still be OK for the package being build.
I think it would be a more feasible idea if versioned dependencies were NOT the default. What would others think of something like this?
I think I would always forget that the feature was there so I don't think it's worth it.
2. Provision dependencies?
Great point, Nagy. pacman -Q would fail on those (sh, cron, etc).
-Dan
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