Re: Debian package non-strict equal dependencies
Dmitrii Kashin <d.kashin@solarsecurity.ru> writes:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
>> In a Debian repository, there can be only one version of D at a time,
>> so this cannot happen. If you want two versions of the same package in
>> the same repository, they need to have different source and binary
>> names (the name can be something like D-2.0 or D-3.0 of course).
> Wow. Thank you very much for this warning. I'll notify all our personnel
> that we must reconsider our repository publication process.
This isn't true of Debian repositories in general. The file format
handles multiple versions of the same package just fine, as do apt and
other tools. It's an intentional restriction imposed by dak for the
Debian archive, and copied by some other archive tools (I think reprepro
imposes this restriction, for instance), but other archive management
tools do not. aptly, for example, is perfectly happy to manage multiple
versions of the same package, and dpkg-scanpackages doesn't care.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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