HAL 0.5.10

[Michael Biebl]

2007/10/12, David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a new hal (and hal-info) release
>
>  http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.10.tar.gz
>  http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-info-20071011.tar.gz

The hal-info-20071011 release has a configure check for hal >= 0.5.10
and aborts if the check fails.
Why exactly was this added, what will happen if this hal-info release
is used with hal < 0.5.10 (which could happen for pre-compiled binary
packages)?

It seems that this is more a runtime dependency than a build-time dependency.
This information would be relevant for packagers and the NEWS file
would be a good place for that kind of changes.


Changes,
Michael

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