Bug#374289: libbonoboui2-dev: uninstallable: conflicting depends.

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sun Jun 18 15:11:37 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 05:06:29PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > PS: Why do you depend on it when you don't have a build
> > dependency for either of those?
> 
>  Because of *.la files (the list of deps added for *.la files is huge,
>  see version 2.10.1-2 in changelog).

You really should only add those -dev packages your packages
added to it.  If your package wasn't using them, they should be
in other .la files, and those packages should already have that
dependency.


Kurt






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