On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 07:48:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > The strict parser should only take effect on anything that's not the > > > status or the available files and --compare-versions. > > > > Not sure I parse your sentence correctly, but > > --compare-versions uses the strict parser: > > Right, sorry I meant: > > strict == parse !(status && available) && --compare-versions
Ok, but if we consider that bad versions might be in the status file, it means those versions can be passed to maintainer scripts during upgrade and those packages might do checks on those versions with --compare-versions. So maybe we should really relax the parser on --compare-versions. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
