On Thu, 08 Feb 2007, Aidas Kasparas wrote: > Why dependency without version is better than dependency with version?
Versioned dependencies give a lot more work for apt to resolve dependency trees, and a misfeature of the apt system is that it does not support versioned provides, so if something ever provides a package, it won't meet any versioned depends. In other words, it is not good for apt to add them unless you do need them. > he has very good reason to indicate that version < 0.87 will not work. > So why should debian package? Because a Etch debian package is supposed to work on Sid (pre-etch), Etch itself, and upgrade well from Sarge. And in those configurations, you *cannot* have a libnet-server-perl < 0.87. If the apt cost for versioned deps was *zero*, I would have added the versioned depends a long time ago. > And regarding "from releases earlier than Sarge"... am I the last > person, who upgrades packages from testing just when he need some new You held out on upgrades of libnet-server-perl for more than 3 years? And you didn't ever upgraded to the latest *STABLE* Debian version? What Debian version are you running? I think I am missing some important detail here. Either that, or packages.qa.debian.org is lying, or someone did a very uncommon thing and added a new upstream version to Debian stable (I will check for this one right now). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
