Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> Still it would be much better if it would somehow use a better version
>> for the Depends. First of all, I think many people are not aware of the
>> problem, and it would be less error prone if ${misc:Depends} wouldn't
>> contain a (somewhat) arbitrary version number.
>
> It's not arbitrary, it's the first version of debconf that implemented
> version 2.0 of the debconf specification. Any packages using version 2
> of the debconf spec have a well-defined interface that they can use,
> even if small details like the supported types of questions change.
>
> Since I have to include the | debconf-2.0, and since debconf _provides_
> debconf-2.0, versioning the debconf side of the dependency with anything
> else would also actually be a no-op.
Wouldn't it make more sense, then, to include explicitly "| cdebconf (>=
$whatnot)"? Actually, this means that any package that depends on a
newer version of debconf will be broken if it uses ${misc:Depends}.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
