build-depend version with dfsg

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 05:28:54PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>while packaging gmerlin-avdecoder i noticed a slight problem with the
>build-depends:
>it used to be libgmerlin-dev (>= 1.0.0)
>but since gmerlin has to be repackaged (to be dfsg compliant), the
>actually installed version is 1.0.0~dfsg-1
>
>now i don't understand, why >=1.0.0 is not satisfied with 1.0.0~dfsg-1
>
>everything works fine, if i build-depend on (>= 1.0.0~dfsg)
>
>am i missing something?
>
>and if gmerlin makes a bugfix release that gets rid of the dfsg
>problems, so we will be able to create libgmerlin-dev_1.0.1-1, will
>(>=1.0.0~dfsg) be satisfied?

The special char ~ means "just below" in Debian-version-speak.

So it makes good sens that a dependency on >=1.0.0 is not satisfied by 
>=1.0.0~anything-at-all, and that is "just below" 1.0.0.


Hope that helps.

  - Jonas

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