On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stefan Potyra wrote: > 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+)
You generally want Package: bar Depends: (foo >= 1.2.1), foo (<< 1.2.2~) or similar. An alternative is Package: foo Provides: foo-api-1.2.1 Package: bar Depends: foo, foo-api-1.2.1 or similar. The second is slightly better, because it enables you to avoid having to rebuild bar if the api/abi doesn't change when you move to 1.2.2. [Though frankly, plugins should be using a frozen API with an unchanging, well thought out interface; rapidly changing APIs for plugins is fundamentally broken.] Don Armstrong -- A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
