[Pkg-virtualbox-commits] [virtualbox] 01/02: Remove many version contraints

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Is there any good reason to do this?

We have many derivatives, and having the minimum version dependencies
listed explicitly, held a lot.

What value does it bring to remove those versioned dependency?

s3nt fr0m a $martph0ne, excuse typ0s
On Mar 20, 2015 4:42 PM, "Gianfranco Costamagna" <
locutusofborg-guest at moszumanska.debian.org> wrote:

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

locutusofborg-guest pushed a commit to branch kfreebsd
in repository virtualbox.

commit a3188c06500c1bfd2e574c236d6cd1f889fab8b1
Author: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>
Date:   Fri Mar 20 12:09:32 2015 +0100

    Remove many version contraints
---
 debian/changelog |  7 +++++++
 debian/control   | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0d7b9f0..0ccf674 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/control: remove many version contraints checks, upper versions
+    already in oldstable.
+
+ -- Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>  Fri, 20 Mar
2015 12:02:04 +0100
+
 virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium

   * Imported upstream release.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fcebe33..569b92b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
                debhelper (>= 9),
                default-jdk,
                dh-python,
-               dkms (>= 2.1.1.1),
+               dkms,
                docbook-xml,
                docbook-xsl,
-               dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.6~),
+               dpkg-dev,
                gcc-4.9,
                g++-4.9,
                g++-multilib ( << 4:5-0 ) [amd64],
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
                libpixman-1-dev,
                libpng-dev,
                libpulse-dev,
-               libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0),
-               libqt4-network (>= 4.4.0),
-               libqt4-opengl-dev (>= 4.4.0),
+               libqt4-dev,
+               libqt4-network,
+               libqt4-opengl-dev,
                libsdl1.2-dev,
                libssl-dev,
                libvncserver-dev,
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
                lynx-cur,
                makeself,
                module-assistant,
-               python-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~),
+               python-dev,
                texlive-fonts-extra,
                texlive-fonts-recommended,
                texlive-latex-extra,
@@ -77,10 +77,8 @@ Vcs-Browser:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git

 Package: virtualbox-qt
 Architecture: amd64 i386
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends},
${shlibs:Depends}
-Breaks: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)
-Replaces: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)
 Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
  VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
  of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a
@@ -90,7 +88,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user
interface

 Package: virtualbox
 Architecture: amd64 i386
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (=
${source:Version}),
             virtualbox-qt (= ${binary:Version}),
@@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ Package: virtualbox-dbg
 Section: contrib/debug
 Priority: extra
 Architecture: amd64 i386
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}) | virtualbox-guest-utils (=
${binary:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends}
 Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols
@@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging
symbols
 Package: virtualbox-dkms
 Section: contrib/kernel
 Architecture: all
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: virtualbox (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
 Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
  VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
@@ -165,7 +163,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel
module source
 Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
 Section: contrib/kernel
 Architecture: all
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
 XB-Modaliases: ${modaliases}
 Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source
for dkms
@@ -199,7 +197,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest
addition module source
 Package: virtualbox-guest-x11
 Section: contrib/x11
 Architecture: amd64 i386
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (= ${binary:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
@@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest
utilities

 Package: virtualbox-guest-utils
 Architecture: amd64 i386
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
+Pre-Depends: dpkg
 Depends: adduser, pciutils, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Recommends: virtualbox-guest-dkms (= ${source:Version}) |
virtualbox-guest-source (= ${source:Version}),
             virtualbox-guest-x11 (= ${binary:Version})

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