On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Possible solutions: > > - Change at least 622 packages so they have something more like > Depends: foo-data (>= ${source:Version}), foo-data (<< ${source:Version}+c) > (also hope that all of their maintainers can get those runes right, taking > into account what the binNMU suffix is, and hope that it won't break > derivatives like Ubuntu that use a source-upload suffix like ubuntu1 that > compares less than +b1) > > - Change at least 622 packages so that when foo-data is binNMU'd, it > automatically gets Provides: foo-data (= 1.2-3) > > - Change some more central component so that the dependencies are edited > or the Provides is added globally > > - Something clever that I haven't thought of > Make no-change-other-than-version-bump source uploads easier?
Cheers, Julien