Re: Describing complex Depends - How?

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:10:42AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> > How do I specify a dependancy like "depends on libfoo >= 0.1.18 but <=
> > 0.1.25)?
> 
> Depends: libfoo (>= 0.1.18), libfoo (<= 0.1.25)

Note that it is rarely a good idea to do this.  If libfoo 0.1.26 is not
compatible with 0.1.25, then it should have a new major number.  Otherwise,
upgrading libfoo is going to get really icky.  The svgalib experiment
showed this.

Richard Braakman