[Pkg-clamav-devel] bug #500416

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Mon Sep 29 14:54:31 UTC 2008


This one time, at band camp, Michael Meskes said:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:09:15PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > release.  clamav-daemon probably needs to be more closely coupled to it
> > in terms of versioned dependencies, but I'm having a hard time figuring
> > out how to do it in an automated manner.  We can of course do something
> > like:
> > 
> > Depends: clamav-base >=(0.94)
> > Conflicts: clamav-base (0.95)
> > 
> > and then increment the numbers with each release, but that feels really
> > fragile to me.
> 
> Is there a reason to not use a dependency on "clamav-base (= ${binary:Version})"?

Doesn't that break binNMU's?  Maybe that's ok, but that was why I
changed it away from a strict = at some point.  I could be wrong, and I
could also be being cautious when I don't need to.
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