On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:06:01PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:

> * Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060924 18:56]:
> [..]
> > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > >   fetchmailconf: Depends: fetchmail (= 6.3.4-6) but 6.3.4-6+b1 is to be
> > >   installed
> > > E: Broken packages

> > The problem is that fetchmail was rebuild on i386 due to a 
> > configuration bug in Hectors build environment.

> Shouldn't a "Depends: fetchmail (= ${source:Version}), ..." (instead of
> the "Depends: fetchmail (= ${Source-Version})" solve these kind of bugs?

Neither of these solves the binNMUability problem.  fetchmailconf is arch:
all, and is not rebuilt in a binNMU; so no matter what variable you use, if
you use a strict = dependency, the dependency will be invalidated by
binNMUs.

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