Re: How to depend on a given version but not a revision ?
Am Freitag, 26. November 2004 11:37 schrieb rixed:
> Hi list !
>
> This is probably a stupid question to ask, but I have 2 homemade
> debs, one is depending on the other (=1.0.7), but the other now
> have the revision number "2" instead of "1" (version is 1.0.7), and
> now apt complains :
>
> homemade2: Depends: homemade1 (= 1.0.7) but 1.0.7-2 is to be
> installed
>
> But I do not want to put Depends homemade2 (>= 1.0.7) because there
> is a 1.0.8 wich is not functionnal. I just thought = 1.0.7 would
> mean : version 1.0.7, the later revision the better, but I just
> read debian-policy (chapter 5.6.11) where things looks less simple.
>
> So the question is : How do you say that version must match a given
> one, and revision number must be taken as high as posible ?
Depends: homemade2 (>= 1.0.7), homemade2 (<< 1.08)
Michael
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