Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi,
> I'm trying to find a way to make a package depend on a specific version of > another package, with a slight difference. > I would like > package "foo" with upstream version 1.0.0.20070630 > to depend exactly on > package "bar" with upstream version 1.0.0 > and not work with > package bar with upstream version greater than 1.0.0 > So I guess it would be similar to requiring the same upstream version > except but truncating the last part of package foo's version before > doing the comparison. > I've had a look at deb-substvars(5), but as far as I can see, I'd have > to use a custom substitution in debian/substvars and update that one > every time package bar is released. You could dynamically generate the debian/substvars entry in debian/rules by parsing the version number of the package (probably via dpkg-parsechangelog) and chopping off the last part. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
