Erick Branderhorst writes (Re: Bug#2060: dpkg and depends on version again):
How about
= = for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok
Erick Branderhorst writes (Bug#2060: dpkg and depends on version again):
[...] The character is misleading and in practice it is
interpretated by dpkg as =. I would suggest to change the syntax
used in Depends/Conflict/Provides/Recommends/Suggest fields into a
more intuitive way (Table 2
How about
= = for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warning.
= for equal to
How about
= = for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warning.
How about no
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I have three test packages foo (1.0-0), foo (1.0-1) and bar (1.0-0).
Table 1: current interpretation by dpkg
Package Version Depends Depends (in words)
foo 1.0-0 bar (1.0-0) bar with version higher than 1.0-0
foo 1.0-1 bar (1.0-1) bar with version
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