On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Debian currently has 10 thousand dependancies [1]. I was proposing 1 > additional dependancy per package with man page, which does *not* double > that number. 2216 packages contain man pages.
So you want to add a dependency to all of those packages, because some old package doesn't work with them? Following normal logic, I would say the would have to have "Conflicts: man-db (< the_first_version_that_works)", instead. If package A doesn't work with versions of package B prior to x.y, and A doesn't depend on B for other reasons, A shouldn't have "Depends: B (>= x.y)", it should have "Conflicts: B (< x.y)" instead. Other than that, it might be easier to just say "hey, if you are using packages from different releases you are pretty much on your own". Remco -- rd1936: 10:55pm up 48 days, 13:50, 7 users, load average: 1.47, 1.49, 1.39
