On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> > 'Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)' as an error; so I used
> > 'Depends: python (>= 2.1)' and 'Conflicts: python (>= 2.2)'
> No, this is not equivalent!
Uh, yes, they are equivalent.
> The Conflict means that I cannot install
> happydoc and python2.2 simultaneously, and this is not desired.
Conflicts: python2.2 would've stopped you from doing this, but that's
not what's list above.
> I know the lintian error, but this is a dpkg/apt/whatever bug, not a
> Python-Policy bug.
dpkg, apt, testing, etc, all work fine with depends of that form. It's
used by apache modules extensively, eg.
Cheers,
aj
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