[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add support for .so dependencies

[Florian Pritz]

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Allan McRae wrote:
>> This shouldn't generate new dependencies, as makepkg already needs to
>> know which packages are needed for building the package. So its a
>> specialization of the already provided dependencies. If it's not, it's a
>> bug in the PKGBUILD.
> 
> Well, then... what is the point?  Versioned dependencies already cover 
> soname values if the package is listed as a dep in addition to is library.
> 
> Allan

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-August/006873.html
The problem was that libarchive-2.7.0-1 needed liblzma.so.0 (which
wasn't in the depends array).
With this patch sodep-32-liblzma.so.0 would have been in the depends
array -> no system breakage possible even if the maintainer doesn't know
he forgot a dependency.

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Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
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