On 2020-08-05 12:33 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 8/5/20 11:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I am surprised to read that, considering that your installed lxc >> version >> does not actually fulfill the dependency. Note the epoch. >> $ dpkg --compare-versions 1:2.0.11-1~xgo90+1 lt 3 || echo 'Got it!' >> Got it! >> > > Maintaining the sample-lxc package I have no influence upon > other packages introducing new epoch numbers. Upstream moved > the templates into a separate github repository for lxc > version 3, so its unreasonable to consider Debian's epoch > number for package dependencies in this case. > > How can I express this dependency upon lxc's upstream version > number in my control file, ignoring the epoch number?
You don't, at least as long as there is only an lxc package _with_ the epoch available, like the one you have currently installed. I am not sure I understand what you actually want to do, though. Cheers, Sven