Problem using checkinstall for G2 svn

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> writes:

> gsf and gsf-gnome are certainly required..  They are used by libgoffice,
> which is the graphing library we use.  You'll definitely need those.
> I don't know why it's trying to pull in libdbus or gnutls.  Those must
> be indirect dependencies.  As for the version numbers on other packages...
> Don't know what to tell you.

The version numbers are necessary because Debian does not guarantee
downward compatibility with libraries.  So when a package links
against a library, it gets a dependency on that version of the library
package (or any more recent), but not on earlier versions.

The source package does not have such versioned dependencies except
when there is reason to think they are necessary (which doesn't apply
in the present cases AFAICT).

Thomas