* Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041125 18:30]: > On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > The ^ would be suffix epoch and smaller than any other symbol except ~ > > (and implies a debian revision of -0 if missing). The # would be > > bigger than any other symbol (also implies a debian revision of -0 if > > missing). > > > > The reason for # is that we have many packages with a > > Depends: foobar (= 1.2-3) or > > Depends: foobar (>= 1.2-3), foobar (<< 1.2-4) > > > > The problem with (= 1.2-3) is that a recompile binary-only NMU won't > > fullfill this anymore and one might have to also upload other packages > > unrelated to the bug to get the depends working. > > > I'd actually go out on a limb and suggest that if we introduce a "less > than everything but null" operator such as ^, and policy it for > Binary-Only NMUs, that: > > 1) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be > stripped and placed as the version in the Source header. > > e.g. foo_1.2-1^1 would have Source: foo (1.2-1)
Of course (that was the third issue in my original text, but this could even be changed with todays handling, if one really wants). > 2) Everything after the operator, including the operator itself be > stripped during version comparisons. > > e.g. 1.2-1^1 == 1.2-1 There are good reasons for that. However, one counter-argument could be that this doesn't allow to exclude a known bad version, or (considering the current xgot/multigot issues on mips*), that if the 1.2-1^0 versions of two packages could be used together, and the 1.2-1^1, but not mixed, than this couldn't be expressed. I don't think that this counter-argument has much weight, but perhaps we should consider about this a bit more. (Hm, it just comes to my mind that we still could do it this way, and say: 1.2-1 == 1.2-1^n, but 1.2-1^n != 1.2-1^m, n!=m. Even better, we could add the stripping off now, and adding the exception to stripping off can be done if we really come to the conclusion that we need it.) > > And with the introduction of ~ the (<< 1.2-4) matches 1.2-4~pre1, > > which usualy isn't the intention of the above. > > > Less-than dependencies tend to be a bit silly anyway due to #170825 and > friends. They look good on paper but don't actually tend to work in the > situations the user intended them. Strong Ack. And - they are much pain for things like testing propagation. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
