[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#820879: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Could you advise for the proper option to get a less strict dependency?

Please read its manual page, it's all documented:

| The "replace" action is like "deduplicate" except that it does
| replace existing files even if their content is different from the content of
| the source files. It generates a weak dependency ("at least the current
| upstream version") on the basis that you already assume that both version are
| compatible, otherwise you would have used "deduplicate" or "embed".

Cheers,
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