On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > I presume it's OK to add the implicit 0: to non-epoch depends?
No, that not okay. dpkg rewrites versions at times – mainly in /var/lib/dpkg/status – to a "canonical" form, so this information is lost at some point. Especially does it cause "strange" behavior in APT: The records in the Packages file (aka with 0:) will be different from the records in the status file (aka without 0:) so APT will think the records talk about two different versions of the package (as the dependencies are different). Example: Package: foo Filename: foo.deb Depends: bar (>= 0:0.00-0) Package: foo Status: install ok installed Depends: bar (>= 0.0) (And before someone asks: wontfix in APT for performance and code duplication with dpkg reasons, among others) In my eyes it would actually make sense to rewrite the version in a "canonical" form already at package creation time and warn in lintian if a version wasn't written in the "canonical" form (as this usually indicates a misunderstanding/bug already). Only problem I see with that is that dpkg isn't providing an interface for it so far which lintian could use. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAZ6_fDVRw__N_qyeo=vrask96l79l535ifhthw_ctu-54w...@mail.gmail.com
