[pkg-php-pear] Bug#802989: Composer: ~5 translates badly as (>= 5) and (<< 1~~)

[David Prévot]

Package: pkg-php-tools
Version: 1.30
Severity: normal

Hi,

While looking at the latest (2.0.1) version of phpunit-dbunit (Vcs up to
date, except the changelog entry), I noticed that the following entry in
composer.json:

    "require": {
        […]
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5",

was translated as “phpunit (>= 5), phpunit (<< 1~~)” by dh_phpcomposer,
making the package uninstallable (even if phpunit 5 were available),
instead of the expected “phpunit (>= 5), phpunit (<< 6~~)”.

I haven’t tracked down the issue, sorry, but filling a bug report not to
forget it.

Regards

David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pkg-php-tools depends on:
ii  debhelper  9.20151005
ii  php-pear   5.6.14+dfsg-1
ii  php5-cli   5.6.14+dfsg-1
ii  php5-json  1.3.7-1

pkg-php-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pkg-php-tools suggests:
ii  dh-make  1.20150601

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