BuildSystem questions

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> I brought up this question recently, and I got the impression that there is an
> effort under way to fix this so you don't have to wait. The problem with
> waiting for a release before building the dependent package is that you can
> cause dependency breakages. I had this happen when I updated two packages at
> the same time, and the dependent package would not compile unless it had the
> newest version of the library, but the build system kept trying to build
> against the old library until the new one was released, which caused
> dependency breakage on the mirrors, which caused bug reports . . . Anyway, my
> point is, if this hasn't been fixed yet, it needs to be, because there are
> good reasons to be able to relase a complete set of packages at the same time.

The exact same thing happened to me. Worse, because I had trouble building, and
increased the release numbers, it bumbed the previous major version from the
mirror sides, so there was no working combination of the two packages that
could be installed.

So, I got my very first bugzilla report for the package, and I resolved it once
the build system worked again :)

Paul
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