Bug#1040175: Wrong kind of dependency?

[Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>]

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Hi,

On Sun, 02 Jul 2023 21:25:58 +0200
Ingo Brückl <ib@wupperonline.de> wrote:

> Package: mplayer-skin-blue
> Version: 1.13-2
> 
> In bug report #981838 I pointed out that the skin requires mplayer-gui
> version >= 2:1.4.
> 
> I assume that the bug has been fixed incorrectly.

Can you elaborate?
> 
> There is no dependency on mplayer-gui. The skin just needs at least
> mplayer-gui version 2:1.4 to work as expected.

I can see the versioned dependency in the package page (since
bullseye)
https://packages.debian.org/sid/mplayer-skin-blue

> 
> Even though I'm not familiar enough with Debian, isn't "Breaks" the
> more appropriate relationship?

Breaks can ensure that this package is not installed alongside with
mplayer-gui < 2:1.4 but it doesn't guarantee that mplayer-gui >= 2:1.4
is installed in the system

Lorenzo

> 
> Ingo
>