xmltooling: allowed dependencies in backports?

[Ferenc Wágner]

Etienne Dysli-Metref <etienne.dysli-metref at switch.ch> writes:

> On 19/09/16 18:52, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
>
>> Btw. you can relax this to >= 1.7.3-3~ on the debian/master branch as
>> well to avoid carrying some meaningless delta.
>
> Thanks Ferenc! Can you explain the effect of that lone tilde at the end?
> I could not find an explanation in the Debian Policy Manual (I've looked
> at chapters 5 and 7).

~ sorts before every other character, and even the empty string, see
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
So:

1.7.3-3        >= 1.7.3-3~
1.7.3-3~bpo8+1 >= 1.7.3-3~

while

1.7.3-3~bpo8+1 <  1.7.3-3
-- 
Feri