Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Versioning the dependency on octave for the OF packages
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2012-03-09 22:33]:
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-03-09 21:32]:
>
> > Also, for future improvements to octave-pkg-dev, we may want to exploit
> > the dependency versioning that is in the DESCRIPTION file of Forge
> > packages. Ideally octave-pkg-dev should fail if the installed octave is
> > lower than the required one. For instance, such a mechanism would have
> > prevented #649395; see also #661123 for a similar problem, but in that
> > case upstream also forgot to tighten the dependency.
>
> Yes, that will be a nice improvement. I will take a look at it.
Done (commit e5d652b8).
I did some minimal test, it seems to work. As I wrote in the commit
log, it only works for the ">=" relationship. I think this should be
enough.
Rafael
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