build-depend version with dfsg

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> 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.


I think you could Build-Dep on (>= 1.0.0~) just to be safe.  That'd be  
the lowest version of 1.0.0 with a tilde version as far as I  
understand it.

.hc

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