Re: Upstream-only version dependency in debian/control
How about:
Depends: foo (>= 1.2.3), foo (<< 1.2.4~)
or
Depends: foo (>= 1.2.3), foo (<< 1.2.3.0~)
Julian
Am Mittwoch, den 11.07.2007, 00:32 +1200 schrieb Francois Marier:
> (Please CC me in your replies, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel)
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get my package to depend on a specific upstream version of
> another package and ignore the Debian component of the version string.
>
> Given package foo 1.2.3-1, I want package bar (which is not built from the
> same source package) to have a line like:
>
> Depends: foo (= 1.2.3)
>
> but not:
>
> Depends: foo (= 1.2.3-1)
>
> or:
>
> Depends: foo (>= 1.2.3)
>
> (since that last one would accept foo 1.2.4-1 for instance)
>
> Is that possible? Is this documented anywhere? Chapter 7 of the policy
> doesn't seem to mention it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francois
>
>
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