Re: versioned Build-Depends?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:44:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I tried the following in a library I am currently packaging:
> 
>   Source: libhid
>   [...]
>   Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libusb-dev (>= 0.1.8)
>   [...]
> 
>   Package: libhid-dev
>   [...]
> 
> Now, when I call dpkg-buildpackage, it happily starts building the
> package, even though
> 
> ii  libusb-dev     0.1.7-6        Userspace USB programming library

'apt-cache show libusb-dev' will show you that libusb-dev has an epoch.

  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libusb-dev (>= 1:0.1.8)

libusb-dev 1:0.1.8 doesn't seem to be in unstable yet, mind.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]