Bug#234748: gcalctool: should Conflict: calctool (< 4.3.42)

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> writes:
> 
> > Provides: calctool (>= 4.3.42)
> 
> That's the problem. 
> 
> According to the debian policy:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> 
> "7.1 Syntax of relationship fields
> ...
> All of the fields except for Provides may restrict their applicability
> to particular versions"
> 
> The Provides field is not versioned ...

Wouldn't it still be sufficient enough to conflict with older calctool versions,
while providing it (even without the version)?

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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
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