-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-11-30 07:09, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoel...@iem.at> writes: > > Hi IOhannes,
hi. sorry, it seems that i never replied to this. could have saved some brain power... > >> On 2013-10-10 17:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> Great approach! >>> >>> I've wanted to deal with this for some time but wanted and >>> approach that was backporting-friendly, which this could be. >>> >>> I am pretty bogged down currently - will you try implement it? >> >> attached is an attempt. i don't dare to push that directly to >> cdbs-git. > > I just checked the patch but I'm not clear how this new feature > should be used commit message says semicolon but eg shows usage of > comma instead. yes, i mixed up the two. it should have read comma. > I installed the patched version and did following > > DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE = ,12 > > I was expecting it to generate automake (>= 1:1.12) but instead > generated version was automake (<= 12) the idea is, that the comma delimits the lower (left-side) and the upper (right-side) version of the b-d. so "5,9" can be read as "at least version 5, but no more than version 9" so it would result in a versioned B-D "automake (>= 5), automake (<=9)" otoh ",12" can be read as "i don't care about the lower version boundary, but the version must not be higher than '12'", resulting in "automake (<= 12)". > which seems to me as wrong because there is no such version in > archive. currently, no checks are performed whether the requested versions are actually in the archive. i don't think that this is necessarily false: if a package requires an (say) automake version between 1.3 and 1.7 and none of these are currently packaged, then the package correctly won't be able to build. but i guess you figured that out already... fgamsd IOhannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJS1rmIAAoJELZQGcR/ejb4LkgP/0L21KFDHo6d2uD865tTDlxn 2XGh06V6hhibkVVXVOLduXl9LpA8Y7H4PbMzmN1JwXisw+hTfvEHfL43ztic2r7+ 4JrD6zzXBJp/NvWm6EGAyHUMG0IVcnxKpYrH6N3Hd4YwwLOfgtIpjpwydq50PrAk AcYWpVru5NXSUa1KGbXYIwratZJP/hgGDNB41NcpB5Yh5b97G7ULeSfZn4BEssSk dZnrOWMI30shZthxTWfQwbKbUBQRIC/gvCEu68JqSlCFuF6x0Oi/RL5RfHdpLSfe 0i8HSHnSE2ogblfGUd8kLqNAo6LSNSc3NZvKYB3vXgnVImV+zSRvGrjCTxOpNpGc 7PYOlLl9Sbvjedz/82FVb9Dvyc/fw5ju/53C4gbSFD1djw/8jJFdny5UQSt5RxRM yK4KibzNlu/wSf3TdNtSsCPcjbh35/hQKuLJrEkD5DY2fkZdJDfZLePHLxC+r++z rT+jo0DXUfXp6a0gsplIzFlM8l4q+Vp08JbdpYpfy6VhS/aNsufEqQq0BSI08nPz NScOpIrykPpLfzgcFEuCSHDrkn/pTra2JrHpL8DtF2t0Odt6xYDLxDKE3yDDsEHf ao2hVSN/oRBSZd0qzmgShGYgoCS75h8T4hPZznsgTydEnNitzYyGQDVUzddUnHlN OmrOPw9AKD5d3P+R4wNI =0MOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org