Re: Versioned dependencies on dh-octave + Rules-Requires-Root

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2025-08-19 18:28]:

> Le mardi 19 août 2025 à 13:41 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > What do you mean by “the versioned dependency is no longer needed?”
> > >
>
> Concretely, before my last upload, octave-io has the following in 
> Build-Depends (omitting debhelper-compat):
>
>                dh-octave (>= 1.2.2),
>                dh-sequence-octave
>
> The version constraint on dh-octave is satisfied in stable (and even 
> oldstable), so it can be safely removed. Hence, one would get:
>
>                dh-octave,
>                dh-sequence-octave
>
> But dh-sequence-octave depends on dh-octave, so the whole dependency on 
> dh-octave can be dropped, and only dh-sequence-octave needs to be 
> present.

I see. You mean that, once a constraint has been satisfied in stable, it 
can be removed. Fair enough, let us apply this rule from now on.

Thanks,

Rafael