On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:09:32 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 08:29:04 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Damyan Ivanov: > > > What I am not clear about is whether this interface to apt-file is > > > something new that is not available in stable. If so, we'd need either > > > a suitable dependency or some kind of legacy support? > > > If this is a new interface I'd probably opt to adding the dependency > > > and let stable users provide a patch :) [..] > > It is a new interface that requires APT 1.1 (or so). It is not > > available in stable and nor do I expect it to be backported (though the > > APT maintainers could prove me wrong here). > > Currently we have > Recommends: apt-file (>= 2.5.0), > and my idea was to bump this to >= 3. > > apt-file itself has Depends: apt (>= 1.1.8); we could maybe also use > the same term; OTOH having apt-file explicitly makes it clearer what > this is about ... > > I've now merged the changes into master, bumped the Recommends on > apt-file to >= 3 (but I'm also fine with going for apt directly), and > added a changelog entry.
Any opinions on 'apt-file (>= 3)' vs. 'apt (>= 1.1.8)'? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Peter Ratzenbeck: Unterwegs
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