[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#471133: Bug#471133: Bug#471133: Depend on geda-symbols (<< 1.MAJOR+1)

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:24:29AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:54 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   Should that be solved by adding something like the following in 
> >   Depends ?
> >   
> >   geda-symbols (<< 1.{major_release+1}~)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure, but I suspect that my "dist upgrade" issues might be
> related to geda-symbols.
> 
> gEDA 1.6.0 symbols will not work with any older versions of libgeda, so
> I added a conflicts between them. (The latest libgeda adds support for
> some new syntax in the symbol file, and some symbols use it.)
> 
> This may have been what caused apt-get to require a dist-upgrade, the
> fact that it explicitly had to de-install the old libgeda, perhaps
> before it wanted to.

Should libgeda-common and geda-symbols be combined? Both are essential
to any geda-gaf installation, from the same source, and now with the same
version coherency requirements.

If so I think it makes sense to combine them into libgeda-common and
obselete geda-symbols.

Hamish