[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs giflib, giflib_doc, giflib_rt, libungif

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 12.03.2010 um 18:41 schrieb Philip Brown:

>> If you include it in a SEPARATE package, then it messes up our
>> inter-package dependancy checking, due to the issues you already
>> discovered a month or two ago, about why it is "bad" to use
>> Alternatives on a shared lib split across multiple packages.
>
> It is not "bad". There are some things which you must do right, but
> then it works. This has been documented at
>  <http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-alternatives#toc3>


however, that same url also documents that it does NOT work.
or at least, specifically, checkpkg no longer does, as i wrote above.

An excerpt from the url:
"No chance for checkpkg to verify the symbols unless GAR tells
checkpkg the alternatives-pathes."

but having a checkpkg that only functions within a GAR tree,  is not very nice.