Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>> Wouldn't it make more sense, then, to include explicitly "| cdebconf (>=
>> $whatnot)"?
>
> No, all versions of cdebconf implement version 2.0 of the debconf
> protocol, and there's no reason that there can't be a third package
> implenting the protocol.
Yes, of course. But as long as ${misc:Depends} specifies
"|debconf-2.0", it cannot be used if one needs a newer version, except
by using a Conflicts: line...
>> Actually, this means that any package that depends on a
>> newer version of debconf will be broken if it uses ${misc:Depends}.
>
> I'd suggest conflicting with versions of debconf that don't work with
> your package in this case.
... which I consider an ugly workaround.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
