Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:3.0.1-7 Severity: normal According to Lintian, it is best to avoid depending on the Debian ‘x.y.z-1’ revision of a package, and instead depend on ‘x.y.z’ alone:
The package declares a build dependency on a version of a package
with a -1 Debian revision such as "libfoo (>= 1.2-1)". Such a
dependency will not be satisfied by a backport of libfoo 1.2-1 and
therefore makes backporting unnecessarily difficult. Normally, the
-1 version is unneeded and a dependency such as "libfoo (>= 1.2)"
would be sufficient. If there was an earlier -0.X version of
libfoo that would not satisfy the dependency, use "libfoo (>=
1.2-1~)" instead.
As far as I can tell, none of the dependencies reported by Lintian
need special handling, so can lose the ‘-1’ revision specification.
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