On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:48:38AM +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Package: python-numeric-tutorial
> > Version: 24.2-5
> > Severity: normal
> > python-numeric-tutorial has
> > Depends
> > --- python (< 2.4)
> > --- python (>= 2.3)
> > indicating that it is not compatible with python2.4.
> > Could you please change the dependency to python2.3 explicitly so as
> > not to hold up the transition to python2.4 as default?
> > Curiously python-numeric does not have the same problem.
> A rebuild fixes the issue, but this line should be changed
> -Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-numeric (= ${Source-Version}), python-tk
> +Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-numeric (= ${source:Version}), python-tk
> so that the package can be binNMUed.
This is wrong, the indicated change would *break* the package so it was no
longer installable after a binNMU. ${Source-Version} is a correct, albeit
deprecated, variable containing the version of the current build, which is
what you want since python-numeric is arch:any.
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