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Re: [ITP] rdiff/librsync 0.9.1 - rsync remote delta algorithm


On Mar  3 13:06, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 3/3/2008 12:54 PM, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>>>>>>> David Rothenberger writes:
>>     > -------- [librsync1 setup.hint ] --------
>>     > sdesc: "Free software library that implements the rsync remote-delta 
>> algorithm. (runtime)"
>>     > ldesc: "librsync is a free software library that implements the
>>     > rsync remote-delta algorithm. This algorithm allows efficient remote
>>     > updates of a file, without requiring the old and new versions to
>>     > both be present at the sending end. The library uses a streaming
>>     > design similar to that of zlib with the aim of allowing it to be
>>     > embedded into many different applications."
>>     > category: Libs
>>     > requires: cygwin libpopt0
>>     > external-source: rdiff
>> This doesn't seem to depend on libpopt0
>
> I don't truly understand how to handle dependencies for development 
> packages. /usr/lib/librsync.la lists as dependency_libs: 
> /usr/lib/libpopt.la -lbz2 -lz. So, what should the dependencies be?

libpopt0 is the DLL, but the package apparently needs the link libs
and headers, so the dependency should be on the package which provides
them.  That's popt.


HTH,
Corinna

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