Bug#339520: mklibs: need versioned binutils dependency
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:15 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:48:18PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > Package: mklibs
> > Version: 0.1.19
>
> > Please add the following dependency to mklibs - see #326103 for details.
>
> > binutils (<= 2.16.1) | binutils (>= 2.16.1cvs20051109-1)
>
> I assume this is intended to work around some bug in the intervening
> versions of the package? Using versioned dependencies to work around other
> packages' bugs is generally discouraged.
Ah; didn't know that. I guess it reduces cruft. Thanks for the
response - feel free to close.
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