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Rebuilding packages in a PPA

Asked by Tycho Andersen

I have two packages in my PPA, call them A and B. B depends on A such that when A's version is updated, B should be rebuilt. In launchpad, is there a way to say "rebuild B against the most current version of A", or do I have to bump B's version number as well (even though I'm not necessarily changing B at all)?

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

If there is a true dependency, then you will need to bump the version - why is there a dependency? If it is due to a .so, then the bump only needs to occur if the public interface changes.

Debian tackles this with "symbols" files, which can be auto-generated, but are a little tricky to use, as often manual overrides need to be used.

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Tycho Andersen (tycho-s) said : 		#2

There are several ways their could be a dependency, but in my case it was because the dependency had a pkgconfig file which was wrong. When that file was fixed, my library would then correctly detect and work with it.