On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi Mentors, > may I use in a version requirement (like those on Depends: or > Build-Depends: field) a ">=" on a specific debian version? > e.g. > Depends: foo (>= 4.54-5) > Nothing seems to deny it, anyway sometimes minor tricks like that does > not work ... Absolutely. If you look at many packages in unstable today, you will probably find: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) as just one example. :) Versioned dependencies are an important feature of the dpkg system. The one limitation is that you can't have a versioned dependency on a virtual package (i.e., a package that exists only in the Provides: field of other packages). Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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