Re: versioned depends not working
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:58:42AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Can somebody please tell me what is wrong with this depends?
>
> Depends: file, libmime-perl (>=5.313), libconvert-tnef-perl (>=0.06), libconvert-uulib-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl (>=1.14), libarchive-tar-perl, libarchive-zip-perl, libmailtools-perl, libunix-syslog-perl, libnet-perl (>= 1.12), libnet-server-perl, spamassassin, libtime-hires-perl, nomarch
>
> Apparently the package installs with libnet-perl 1.09 installed,
> it isn't suppost to install without libnet-perl >= 1.12.
>
> This looks OK to me:
>
> >dpkg --compare-versions 1.09.01-1 '>=' 1.12 && echo TRUE || echo FALSE FALSE
>
> Have I gone mad?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that libnet-perl is a mixed
virtual package, provided by perl-modules.
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- mdz
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