On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:26:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Package: libxrender1 > Version: 0.8.3-5 > Followup-For: Bug #234785 > > it has also some quite strange dependencies: > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0) > Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0) > > isnt it better to specify Depends: xlibs (>= 4.3.0) instead? No, why? If I do that, people like Norbert Tretkowski have to work harder to provide a backport for woody[1]. You might also be overlooking the fact that the package's Depends: line is calculated by dpkg-shlibdeps. A quick check of the source package would reveal this. [1] http://www.inittab.de/blog/2004/10/10 -- G. Branden Robinson | I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | committing hara-kiri over this, but branden@debian.org | I overslept this morning. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Toshio Yamaguchi
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