On 01/06/14 16:33, Ximin Luo wrote: > On 01/06/14 16:25, Ximin Luo wrote: >> Currently, it looks like mozilla-devscripts generates Depends: and Breaks: >> versions directly from <minVersion>. >> >> However, Debian versions and Mozilla versions are different. For example, >> currently icedove-dev is at version 30.0~b1-1, which in Debian sorts *before* >> 30.0. However, the Mozilla XUL_VERSION is 30.0 even for beta builds. This >> means >> I have to declare a Build-Depends: on icedove-dev (>= 30.0~~) for things to >> work. OK, this is not too bad. >> > > This is MOZILLA_VERSION (and friends) in /usr/include/icedove/mozilla-config.h > >> However, the binary packages still result in a Depends and Breaks version of >> 30.0, not 30.0~~, which means that are not installable. I suggest we append >> ~~ >> to these version strings, to handle the case where the Debian release of >> iceweasel/icedove is itself a beta or rc. >> > > It looks like a single ~ works as well - I guess in normal situations we'll > only have "version~beta" so (>= version~) should cover this adequately. >
Would people accept a patch to mozilla-devscripts to make it append ~ to all versions in xpi:Depends and xpi:Breaks? And maybe xpi:* but I'm less familiar with the details. This is important because the current versions of icedove/iceweasel in sid are all betas. X -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
