On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 23:44 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 12:39 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
Yes, but, the hard part there is the different packages will conflict, so they really need to be different PPAs.
How many parts would inkscape be? I'm surprised there's not a way to encapsulate the libs. But perhaps that's a problem with debian.
The problem isn't with the number of parts, it's that Debian assumes that the package name is unique. That goes where things like files get placed. I did a patch to the build system for the inkscape-dev version I did a while back so that it was parallel installable, but it was kinda a PITA to maintain.
I guess what we could do is modify our build system so that there was a modifier built in. Then we could make "daily", "dev" and even "my-crazy-feature." It would make doing something like that easier.
--Ted