On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 15:33:53 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >The relations allowed are ‘<<’, ‘<=’, ‘=’, ‘>=’ and ‘>>’ for strictly > >earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly > >later, respectively. The deprecated forms ‘<’ and ‘>’ were confusingly > >used to mean earlier/later or equal, rather than strictly earlier/later, > >and must not appear in new packages (though ‘dpkg’ still supports them > >with a warning). > > So while the text doesn't say that ‘<’ and ‘>’ are allowed, it doesn't say > they are forbidden in non-new packages either. > > Can we do s/appear in new packages/be used/ to make it perfectly clear? > I'm not sure what difference that makes. Policy can't alter the past, so existing source packages won't magically get fixed as a result of a policy change?
Cheers, Julien