On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > 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...
The best extant solution to this is just to Conflicts: foo (<= B). Forcing an upgrade isn't such a bad thing... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
