Re: How to not break dependant packages
Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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.
Yup. I realized that after I posted. :-/
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