Re: binNUMUs - all-depends-any
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:
> > Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK
> > there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package
> > that depend on the specific arch: any package.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/423041
> >
> > Loosening the dependencies as suggested in http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU
> > isn't a good solution, as it can lead to
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/425494
>
> Is there a reason why a set of dependencies that only allow package
> versions based on the same upstream version to be installed wouldn't
> work? [1]
> [1] For a package foo-bar, this would mean that deps should be like
> foo-bar (>= 1.2.3), foo-bar (<< 1.2.4~) (or something similiar)
That'd work. I was hoping, with the increased usage of binNMUs, there's
something more convenient than changing debian/control by hand. I'll
now go with
Depends: git-core (>> ${source:Upstream-Version}, git-core (<<
${source:Upstream-Version}-.)
I think.
Regards, Gerrit.
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