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Re: How to not break dependant packages



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Hubert Chathi wrote:
> 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.
> 
Why not "foo (<< 1.2.2)" then?

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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