On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 22:32:19 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

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> Hi,

Hi Lucas, thanks a lot for your kind reply!

> 
> Do you know why those versioned deps were introduced?

Well, actually, after digging into the git repository, I remembered that
the versioned dependency was introduced by me for a previous
transition...   :-/
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=8da1d43065b8427abe52e4c93f9ee9dfe369f0ff

In other words, in that occasion, I didn't think about people who could
wish to backport apt-listbugs. So maybe, I could do the same now and
update the version.
On the other hand, keeping the old version as a useful indication for
potential backporters looks like a good idea.

> 
> In any case, using versioned deps is probably the safe solution here.

Good, if what I discovered doesn't change the conclusion, I'll keep the
versioned dependency.

Thanks a lot for your input.


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