On 2008-07-17 20:59 +0200, Hubert Chathi wrote:

> Stefan Potyra wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> On Thursday 17 July 2008 15:15:25 Sean McE wrote:
>>> 
>> On current packaging there is no way to express the dependency on
>> upstream version only, 
> [...]
>
>> actually, there is:
>> Depends: foo (>= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.1+)
>
> This wouldn't work for binNMU'ed packages (in which case, foo might have
> version number like 1.2.1+b1).  Maybe "foo (<< 1.2.1++)" might work.

Huh?  We're talking about non-native packages here, so the Debian
versions are 1.2.1-1, 1.2.1-2, 1.2.1-2+b1, ..., 1.2.1+git20080717-1 or
similar.

Sven


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