On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 15:52 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:24:58PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > 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: > > > 2) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be > > stripped during version comparisons. > > > e.g. 1.2-1^1 == 1.2-1 > > Wouldn't this make automatic upgrades to binary NMUs cumbersome? You'd need > a separate version comparison routine for deciding whether to upgrade the > package, than for deciding whether package relationships are satisfied. > Yeah, you'd have to vary exactly how it compared depending on the circumstances of the comparison. It was an idea, I didn't say it was a *good* idea :o) Maybe we should look at why this is needed? binary-all packages depending on a binary-any package from the same source with Depends: (= ${Source-Version}) Is there any way we can eliminate the need to do *that*? Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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