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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [Pkg-octave-commit] [SCM] Debian packaging for octave-fpl branch, master, updated. debian/1.2.0-3-3-gde1f045



Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:59:30AM +0000, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>>     Add missing epoch in dependency on dx (thanks to Jakub Wilk)
>> 
>> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
>> index c010e99..2362392 100644
>> --- a/debian/control
>> +++ b/debian/control
>> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-octave/octave-fpl.git
>>  
>>  Package: octave-fpl
>>  Architecture: all
>> -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${octave:Depends}, dx (>= 4.3.2)
>> +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${octave:Depends}, dx (>= 1:4.3.2)
>
> Is the epoch here really necessary? I don't mind the change, but I think
> I don't quite understand something here - even oldstable has 1:4.4.4-1.

I made this change following an email on debian-devel@ listing all
packages that had wrong dependency due to missing epoch.

I totally agree with you that we could just drop the versioned
dependency. I made this change because having a versioned dependency
corresponding to a version that has never existed in Debian was just
wrong. Feel free to drop the versioned dep.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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