Hi, Quoting Christoph Biedl (2015-09-30 08:25:50) > Personally, I'm not happy about adding extra magic to version numbers > to identify binNMUs and would rather introduce a way to define a range > of version numbers a package satifies, like in > > | Version: 5.25-3+b1 # upper bound > | Also-Satifies: 5.25-3 # lower bound > > or by allowing two version numbers in the Version: header. But that's > certainly not my cup of tea, and might bring in a huge amount of new > problems I cannot even imagine yet.
in fact, this can already be done: Package: foo Architecture: any Version: 5.25-3+b1 Provides: foo (= 5.25-3) This is possible since fixing of bug #7330 in dpkg 1.17.11 and bug #758153 in apt 1.0.7. So this should work in Jessie. cheers, josch
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