<p dir="ltr">Is there any good reason to do this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">We have many derivatives, and having the minimum version dependencies listed explicitly, held a lot.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">What value does it bring to remove those versioned dependency?</p>
<p dir="ltr">s3nt fr0m a $martph0ne, excuse typ0s</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2015 4:42 PM, "Gianfranco Costamagna" <<a href="mailto:locutusofborg-guest@moszumanska.debian.org">locutusofborg-guest@moszumanska.debian.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.<br>
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locutusofborg-guest pushed a commit to branch kfreebsd<br>
in repository virtualbox.<br>
<br>
commit a3188c06500c1bfd2e574c236d6cd1f889fab8b1<br>
Author: Gianfranco Costamagna <<a href="mailto:costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it">costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it</a>><br>
Date: Fri Mar 20 12:09:32 2015 +0100<br>
<br>
Remove many version contraints<br>
---<br>
debian/changelog | 7 +++++++<br>
debian/control | 28 +++++++++++++---------------<br>
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)<br>
<br>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog<br>
index 0d7b9f0..0ccf674 100644<br>
--- a/debian/changelog<br>
+++ b/debian/changelog<br>
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@<br>
+virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium<br>
+<br>
+ * d/control: remove many version contraints checks, upper versions<br>
+ already in oldstable.<br>
+<br>
+ -- Gianfranco Costamagna <<a href="mailto:costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it">costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it</a>> Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:02:04 +0100<br>
+<br>
virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium<br>
<br>
* Imported upstream release.<br>
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control<br>
index fcebe33..569b92b 100644<br>
--- a/debian/control<br>
+++ b/debian/control<br>
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,<br>
debhelper (>= 9),<br>
default-jdk,<br>
dh-python,<br>
- dkms (>= 2.1.1.1),<br>
+ dkms,<br>
docbook-xml,<br>
docbook-xsl,<br>
- dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.6~),<br>
+ dpkg-dev,<br>
gcc-4.9,<br>
g++-4.9,<br>
g++-multilib ( << 4:5-0 ) [amd64],<br>
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,<br>
libpixman-1-dev,<br>
libpng-dev,<br>
libpulse-dev,<br>
- libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0),<br>
- libqt4-network (>= 4.4.0),<br>
- libqt4-opengl-dev (>= 4.4.0),<br>
+ libqt4-dev,<br>
+ libqt4-network,<br>
+ libqt4-opengl-dev,<br>
libsdl1.2-dev,<br>
libssl-dev,<br>
libvncserver-dev,<br>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,<br>
lynx-cur,<br>
makeself,<br>
module-assistant,<br>
- python-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~),<br>
+ python-dev,<br>
texlive-fonts-extra,<br>
texlive-fonts-recommended,<br>
texlive-latex-extra,<br>
@@ -77,10 +77,8 @@ Vcs-Browser: <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git" target="_blank">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git</a><br>
<br>
Package: virtualbox-qt<br>
Architecture: amd64 i386<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}<br>
-Breaks: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)<br>
-Replaces: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)<br>
Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface<br>
VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range<br>
of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a<br>
@@ -90,7 +88,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface<br>
<br>
Package: virtualbox<br>
Architecture: amd64 i386<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}<br>
Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (= ${source:Version}),<br>
virtualbox-qt (= ${binary:Version}),<br>
@@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ Package: virtualbox-dbg<br>
Section: contrib/debug<br>
Priority: extra<br>
Architecture: amd64 i386<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}) | virtualbox-guest-utils (= ${binary:Version}),<br>
${misc:Depends}<br>
Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols<br>
@@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols<br>
Package: virtualbox-dkms<br>
Section: contrib/kernel<br>
Architecture: all<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: virtualbox (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}<br>
Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms<br>
VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range<br>
@@ -165,7 +163,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source<br>
Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms<br>
Section: contrib/kernel<br>
Architecture: all<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}<br>
XB-Modaliases: ${modaliases}<br>
Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms<br>
@@ -199,7 +197,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source<br>
Package: virtualbox-guest-x11<br>
Section: contrib/x11<br>
Architecture: amd64 i386<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (= ${binary:Version}),<br>
${misc:Depends},<br>
${shlibs:Depends},<br>
@@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities<br>
<br>
Package: virtualbox-guest-utils<br>
Architecture: amd64 i386<br>
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)<br>
+Pre-Depends: dpkg<br>
Depends: adduser, pciutils, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}<br>
Recommends: virtualbox-guest-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-guest-source (= ${source:Version}),<br>
virtualbox-guest-x11 (= ${binary:Version})<br>
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