Re: How to not break dependant packages

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Subject: Re: How to not break dependant packages
From: Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:02 -0400
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Stefan Potyra wrote:

> Hi,
> On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote:
>> 
> On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on
> upstream version only, 
[...]

> actually, there is:
> Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.1+)

This wouldn't work for binNMU'ed packages (in which case, foo might have
version number like 1.2.1+b1).  Maybe "foo (<< 1.2.1++)" might work.

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