[maemo-developers] How to promote libs via extras-testing?

From: Graham Cobb g+770 at cobb.uk.net
Date: Thu Sep 17 22:01:49 EEST 2009
On Thursday 17 September 2009 19:40:14 Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> It's basically impossible to promote just a library since
> there's no useful way to test a library alone. But you
> can also not just promote an application using a library
> from extras-devel as it would be broken without its libs.

The promotion process automtically promotes dependencies.  So, when you 
promote your application, the libraries will be promoted with it. 

> osm2go is such an example as it depends on libgoocanvas
> which is also in extras-devel

Niels fixed a bug recently that was causing it not to find all the right 
dependencies so if you find it isn't working I am sure he will be interested 
in fixing it!

Graham
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