On 6/13/07, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
"R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chandra@ee.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> -> Considering build-dep tex-common (>= 1.7)
> Tried versions: 1.7~7.04prevu1
0.42
> -> Does not satisfy version, not trying
> E: Could not satisfy build-dependency.
[...]
> As stated above, I already have tex-common_1.7~7.04prevu1
> installed. So this diagnostic is perplexing.
The semantics of ~ are that $foo~$anything is always *less* than $foo,
so this is totally expected. To work around this, either
This is the correct answer.
- wait for tex-common 1.8 (no schedule yet)
- or lower the Build-Dep to (>= 1.7~)
And lowering the build-dep on the package you're trying to compile is the BEST way of working around it.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)