Bug#867104: wanna-build issue with src:perl versioned Provides
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 04:26:04AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 23:02:52 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > 6)
> >
> > Package: a
> > Depends: p (>= 1), p (<< 2)
> >
> > Package: b
> > Provides: p (=1)
> >
> > Package: c
> > Provides: p (=2)
> >
> > When a and b are installed, can c be installed without removing a?
>
> Yes, because b is enough to satisfy the dependency. This is not a
> Conflicts/Breaks field after all.
>...
But it is being used for that purpose in *many* packages.
As an example, there are ~ 300 Python3 packages that have
"python3 (<< 3.7), python3 (>= 3.5~)" dependencies autogenerated using:
Depends: ${python3:Depends}
If this is considered a bug, then what is required is that dh-python adds
${python3:Breaks}, and then each of these packages has to be changed to:
Depends: ${python3:Depends}
Breaks: ${python3:Breaks}
> Thanks,
> Guillem
cu
Adrian
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