On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> The ^ would be suffix epoch and smaller than any other symbol except ~
> (and implies a debian revision of -0 if missing). The # would be
> bigger than any other symbol (also implies a debian revision of -0 if
> missing).
>
> The reason for # is that we have many packages with a
> Depends: foobar (= 1.2-3) or
> Depends: foobar (>= 1.2-3), foobar (<< 1.2-4)
>
> The problem with (= 1.2-3) is that a recompile binary-only NMU won't
> fullfill this anymore and one might have to also upload other packages
> unrelated to the bug to get the depends working.
>
I'd actually go out on a limb and suggest that if we introduce a "less
than everything but null" operator such as ^, and policy it for
Binary-Only NMUs, that:
1) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be
stripped and placed as the version in the Source header.
e.g. foo_1.2-1^1 would have Source: foo (1.2-1)
2) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be
stripped during version comparisons.
e.g. 1.2-1^1 == 1.2-1
> And with the introduction of ~ the (<< 1.2-4) matches 1.2-4~pre1,
> which usualy isn't the intention of the above.
>
Less-than dependencies tend to be a bit silly anyway due to #170825 and
friends. They look good on paper but don't actually tend to work in the
situations the user intended them.
I can't infer from your mail any logic for #, it sorts greater than any
character currently permitted which is fair enough ... was this a typo?
Depends: foobar (>= 1.2-3), foobar (>= 1.2-3#)
Did you really mean:
Depends: foobar (>= 1.2-3), foobar (<= 1.2-3#)
If so, you can just do:
Depends: foobar (>= 1.2-3), foobar (<< 1.2-4~)
to solve the same problem.
Scott
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