[Pkg-clamav-devel] bug #500416

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Mon Sep 29 14:57:12 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.

AFAIK ${binary:Version} is ok, ${source:Version} was the variable one shouldn't
use.

Best,
Michael

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