On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:13:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:26:00AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Package: libxrender1 > > Version: 0.8.3-5 > > Followup-For: Bug #234785 > > > > it has also some quite strange dependencies: > > > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0) > > Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0) > > > > isnt it better to specify Depends: xlibs (>= 4.3.0) instead? > > No, why? > > If I do that, people like Norbert Tretkowski have to work harder to provide > a backport for woody[1].
Hmm... you mean the Depends/Conflicts is redundant, but more adaptive to compile time changes? Unfortunatelly this "feature" is confusing users and most likely also software which tries to resolve dependencies. Well at least it confused me while i was looking for the reason why I cant upgrade it. But I dont care much, I was not aware that somebody could want to do this intentional :) Greetings Bernd
