Re: Depending on a -bin package built from the same source version

[Antonio Valentino <antonio.valentino@tiscali.it>]

Hi Sven, hi Eric,

Il 10/03/2013 19:59, Sven Joachim ha scritto:
> On 2013-03-10 19:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote:
>
> > On 10/03/13 18:48, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> > > Configuration item 'binary:polsarpro Depends:2' has a wrong value:
> > > dependency 'polsarpro-bin (<< ${source:Version}.1~)' does not match grammar
> > >
> > >
> > > Should I care about it?
> > Not about the "unknownness" of the package as you're currently packaging it.
> > But about the wrong version value: you can't combine a placeholder and
> > other characters.
>
> Why not?

Is it possible that cme is complaining about that.
Is it a cme bug?

> > > Is there a better solution to address the specific problem?
> > Yes, simply depend on version equality:
> >
> > 	Depends: polsarpro-bin (= ${source:Version})
> >
> > Remark: you might want to check [1] if a binary:Version placeholder
> > wouldn't be a better choice.
>
> Assuming that polsarpro is Arch:all and polsarpro-bin is Arch:any, which
> seems to be the case here, neither of these options works.
>
> A valid possibility would be to reverse the roles and dependencies:
> rename polsarpro to polsarpro-data and polsarpro-bin to polsarpro, then
> polsarpro can depend on polsarpro-data (= ${source:Version}).
>
> Cheers,
>         Sven

yes I could use polsarpro-data or polsarpro-gui but the problem remains.

The GUI is written in Tcl/Tk and is arch: all and it must depend form 
the package containing command line programs that is arch: any.

Without command line programs the GUI can't perform any useful task.


regards

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Antonio Valentino