Re: lintian releases

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Steve Greenland wrote:

> On 25-Sep-01, 17:56 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@home.com> wrote: 
> > a) you declare a relation on a package more than once i.e. Depends:
> > foo, foo (<< 2.0). Note this check assumes that '|' relations are
> > sane, so Depends: foo | bar | baz, foo is ok.
> 
> How is that sane? I'm parsing that as "(foo OR bar OR baz) AND foo",
> which is the same as "(bar OR baz) AND foo", right? 

Perhaps he meant to write:

 foo | bar, foo | baz

same as

 (foo) OR (bar AND baz)

Peter