On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:56:59PM +0100, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > X-Debbugs-CC: a...@debian.org, ballo...@debian.org, spwhit...@spwhitton.name, > r...@debian.org > > El dc 07 de 02 de 2018 a les 17:31 +0100, Bill Allombert va escriure: > > ... However <package> will have to have a versioned Depends: on > > <source package>-copyright for exactly the same reason: the copyright > > file might change between versions and we do not want to confuse users > > by allowing them to have an outdated <source package>-copyright package. > > Versioned Recommends actually, but does a versioned Recommends make any > difference?
That is why a versioned Depends: is needed. > The user knows there is an updated package with no > dependency problems. On the other hand, when having two versions of the > same package in multiarch (in the future), one of them will not match > the version of source-copyright. Is this a problem? Obviously yes. Cheers, Bill.
