RFU: vdrift 0.0.2006.02.21-1

Gonéri Le Bouder goneri at rulezlan.org
Fri May 26 15:58:14 UTC 2006


On Thursday 25 May 2006 10:51, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> > On 5/25/06, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:
> >> Le Samedi 13 Mai 2006 23:07, Bruno Kleinert a écrit:
> >> > btw, i committed a little change to vdrift-data, so it recommends
> >> > vdrift, now, instead of depending on it.
> >>
> >> Does an official policy exist about that? In fact i prefere to keep
> >> the "depends" to be sure that vdrift-data will be removed with vdrift.
> >
> > That induces a circular dependency, and there might be other games (at
> > some point) that could use vdift's data files.
> >
> > IMHO there is no need to depend on the binary, apt frontends should
> > discover packages in such situation (aptitude does this).
>
> apt-get doesn't and i can't imagine a new game that depends on
> vdrift-data since this is not an official tarball. Maybe a different
> flavor of the package like vdrift-sdl or vdrift-oss will be create. In
> this case we can update vdrift-data depends.
I switched back to "Depends:".

If one day apt-get is able to deal with this situation, i will change it to 
Recommends:

Regards,

	Gonéri



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