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Re: Build-Depends versioning and binary Depends versioning



On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:10:51 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> writes:
> 
> > Should I restrict the Depends for the binary packages by hand in
> > debian/control? For example adding:
> 
> > 	libavcodec53 (<< 6:9)
> 
> > to the binary package I am interested in restricting?
> 
> Yes.  The shared library dependency information otherwise comes from
> shlibs/symbols, which won't take into account restrictions on the build
> dependency.
> 

Thanks Russ.

-- 
Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it

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