[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#658441: Basic epoch error

[Jo Shields]

This is fairly basic packaging error.

Any Debian version number without an epoch (number before : in the
version string) is implicitly a 0:

So for example, a dependency >= 1.0 is treated as >= 0:1.0

Your package has a build-dependency on libev-dev (>= 4.11), but this is
implicitly 0:4.11 so is satisfied by *any* version with an epoch of 1 or
higher, such as Squeeze's 1:3.9-1

If you want to require version 4.11 of libev, then due to the epoch of
the package in the archive, you MUST depend on >= 1:4.11 not >= 4.11.
This bug is a pain in the ass for backporters, as is the case with this
bug.
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