Bug#544016: libtext-multimarkdown-perl: Should conflict using "<<" ("<" is deprecated and interpreted as "<=")

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:32:00 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> This package conflicts versioned with older versions of its predecessor
> - but does using the deprecated "<" syntax which is treated like "<=".
> 
> Please use "<<" instead to allow installing aside current release of its
> predecessor.

From svn:

Package: libtext-multimarkdown-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libtext-markdown-perl (>= 1.0.24)
Conflicts: libtext-markdown-perl (<< 1.025-1)
Replaces: libtext-markdown-perl (<< 1.025-1)
Description: Perl module to convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML


gregoa at belanna:~$ apt-cache show libtext-multimarkdown-perl
Package: libtext-multimarkdown-perl
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.0.27-1
Replaces: libtext-markdown-perl (<< 1.025-1)
Depends: perl, libtext-markdown-perl (>= 1.0.24)
Conflicts: libtext-markdown-perl (<< 1.025-1)


Looks ok to me; where did you see the '<'?


Cheers,
gregor
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