Hi, On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:19:39AM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> > So I'd like my package to conflict with versions A to B of foo. I tried > > to specify it with "Conflicts: foo (>> A), foo (<< B)" but, as I feared, > > it does not work since it now conflicts both with all versions >> A and > > with all versions << B (as A << B, that means all versions). > > How about "Depends: foo (<< A) | foo (>> B)"? No, my package does not depend in any way on foo. Depending on foo only to prevent a few specific versions of foo to be installed would be evil, AFAICS... > > Currently, there's no need for such a feature for positive dependencies > > (Depends, Recommends and Suggests), because there is a workaround: > > "Depends: foo (>> A), foo (<< B)" works for "Depends: foo (>> A, << B)", > > but it only works because only one version of foo can be installed at a > > time. If versionned provides are ever implemented, it may become > > possible to have several versions of a package at a time, thus breaking > > this workaround. > > The above will also break if versioned provides are implemented. Which "The abobe"? Your "Depends: foo (<< A) | foo (>> B)"? Or my "Depends: foo (>> A, << B)"? I can't see why mine would be broken. Did I miss something? Regards, Nicolas
