Re: How to not break dependant packages
On 2008-07-17 20:59 +0200, 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.
Huh? We're talking about non-native packages here, so the Debian
versions are 1.2.1-1, 1.2.1-2, 1.2.1-2+b1, ..., 1.2.1+git20080717-1 or
similar.
Sven
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