please upload: puredata-import

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Jun 13 15:06:50 UTC 2011


On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 22:05, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:18 +0000, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> I'm confused. You make a change for puredata >= 0.43. Does this  
>>> break
>>> puredata <0.43? The Depends field suggests that (puredata-core is  
>>> non
>>> existent until 0.43). If so, the build-depends on puredata << 0.43  
>>> is
>>> wrong.
>>
>> puredata << 0.43 provides everything, headers, app, gui, doc, etc.   
>> With
>> 0.43, the headers are in puredata-dev and puredata is a meta package
>> that installs everything.  I wanted to avoid having the package
>> Build-Depend on the whole suite of packages, that's why I added the
>> 0.43.  Plus in the future, puredata might no longer also install
>> puredata-dev.
>>
>>> Also, doesn't 0.43 bring in the required headers? I think the
>>> add_required_headers patch can be removed.
>>
>> Yes, the puredata-dev 0.43 package does provide those headers, but I
>> wanted to leave in the patch for now to aid backporting and let the  
>> dust
>> settle on the big changes that happened with the puredata package  
>> being
>> split into puredata-gui, puredata-dev, puredata-core, etc.
>
> The package won't work unmodified anyways, since it Depends on
> puredata-core, which doesn't exist until 0.43. So strictly speaking
> the aid for backporting is incomplete (also, it installs into a
> different dir, so that would need to be changed too).
>
> I suggest just dropping the << 0.43 option, since it misleads into
> thinking it could actually work unchanged with 0.42.
>
>
> Please update the changelog. I have reviewed this and will upload
> tomorrow afternoon (GMT-4, so probably past midnight in europe).


Ok, makes sense, I removed the << 0.43 and pushed.

.hc


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