[Pkg-clamav-devel] Add source:Version minimum version requirements for freshclam to clamav, clamav-daemon, and clamav-milter

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 17 23:03:57 UTC 2014


On 18.07.2014 00:32, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On July 17, 2014 6:22:14 PM EDT, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> The commit message sounds as if you wanted to add
>> (>= ${source:Version}), but you added (= ${source:Version}).
>> This is not binNMU-safe, so it should be change either to >= or to
>> binary:Version.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>
> Equals source version is binNMU safe, isn't it?

It is not [1]:
  * declaring dependency between 2 arch: any packages: ${binary:Version}

In a binNMU the binary version is incremented, but the source version 
stays the same, so the packages will become uninstallable.

>  It could be >= though.

I don't know what you intended, or why you added it, but this should be 
safe.

Best regards,
Andreas

1: https://wiki.debian.org/binNMU



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