On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:57:38 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > gregor herrmann wrote: > > So -V adds "perl (>= 5.14.2-6)", and -S adds "perl (>= 5.14.2), perl > > (<< 5.14.3~)" at the moment. > Which seems inconsistent, surely -S should not allow an older perl > version than -V?
Hm.
Not necessarily IMO; the semantics of -S is "satisfy the request of
$somepackage to run with the current perl _upstream_ version (now
5.14.2)", independent of the Debian revision.
For arch:any packages the lower bound will be overridden anyway, and
for arch:all packages it should be fine this way.
But I agree that it looks illogical, or at least aesthetically
unpleasing.
A different approach might be that the new option only adds the upper
bound ("perl (<< $nextversion~)"); for arch:any the minimum version
is added anyway, and arch:all packages could use -V additionally.
(In this case I'd rather name it -N (next) than -S.)
Does this make more sense?
(Anyone else from the pkg-perl group following along?)
Cheers,
gregor
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