On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:34:04PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008 5:18:56 pm Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > So for packages which build their own data, I think it is good if the
> > relation is a strict Depends: foo-data (= ${source:~version}).
>
> If foo-data is binary-independent, the Depends version should be (>=
> ${source:Version}), else it could break binNMUs.
First of all, sorry about the ~. I must have thought I was in command
mode, where the ~ would turn the 'v' into a 'V'. ;-)
= is not a problem, though: with a binary-only NMU, the source version
doesn't change. Since we don't put a Depends: on the data package,
using >= would allow an old binary to be installed with a new source.
We have no reason to believe that that should work.
The binNMU problem is solved with using ${source:Version} instead of
${binary:Version}. The latter causes problems, because the binary
version of the NMU _is_ different.
Thanks,
Bas
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