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Re: (low priority) udeb naming



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> But pretty much all udebs have versioned depends or should have them
> for correctness. The few bytes wasted on the versioned depends don't
> realy matter and are far outweight by the daily build process (apt and
> dpkg specifically) actually checking the versioned depends.
> 
> It might not be policy to have a versioned depend but the current
> implementation of d-i (run-time, not build-time) just ignores it. If
> we see that we actually get version scews d-i can be made to generate
> proper error for version scews later.
> 
> I think we should change udeb policy to allow for versioned depends
> but note that the run-time will not (yet) enforce them.

That's reasonable.

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see shy jo

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