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Bug#428661: marked as done (Pre-Depends on an unknown Debian version)

Your message dated Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:48:29 +0200
with message-id <20070613114828.GC19953@patate.is-a-geek.org>
and subject line Bug#428661: Pre-Depends on an unknown Debian version
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.2-3
Severity: Serious


Coin,

Having changelog entries with work from child distribution like Ubuntu
cannot cause any technical problems, so it is tolerated (and it is good
that their work is acknoleged), but versions in control files may cause
unmet dependencies easily. That's why the following is a problem :
  Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3)

Moreover, this is a policy violation : "7.1 Syntax of relationship
fields" refers to "5.6.12 Version" which is stating :
  The version number of a package. The format is:
  [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]
  ...
  This part of the version number specifies the version of the Debian
  package based on the upstream version. 
But "0ubuntu3" refers to an unexistent Debian package.

Regards.

-- 
Marc Dequènes (Duck)

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 13:28:40 +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote:

> 
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.2-3
> Severity: Serious

right, feel free to abuse release-critical bug severities for
nonexistent bugs...

> 
> Coin,
> 
> Having changelog entries with work from child distribution like Ubuntu
> cannot cause any technical problems, so it is tolerated (and it is good
> that their work is acknoleged), but versions in control files may cause
> unmet dependencies easily. That's why the following is a problem :
>   Pre-Depends: x11-common (>= 7.0.0-0ubuntu3)

Can you point at an actual problem, rather than unsubstantiated FUD?

> Moreover, this is a policy violation : "7.1 Syntax of relationship

No it's not.

> fields" refers to "5.6.12 Version" which is stating :
>   The version number of a package. The format is:
>   [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]
>   ...
>   This part of the version number specifies the version of the Debian
>   package based on the upstream version. 
> But "0ubuntu3" refers to an unexistent Debian package.
> 
Closing this bug.

Cheers,
Julien

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