Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> writes: > Thank you for your bug report, could you explain the meaning of tilda > ~ in versions dependencies ? I can't find an explanation in debian > docs.
It's useful to allow dependencies to be satisfied with pre-released versions[0] (such as RC) and also to allow using backported packages for rails (as backport version is something like 2.3.11-1~bpo60+1 for 2.3.11-1). You can easily check with dpkg --compare-versions: $ dpkg --compare-versions '2.3.11-1' '>' '2.3.11-1~bpo60+1' && echo true || echo false true BTW, after checking TMail, it does not seem necessary to explicitely add it as ruby-rails-2.3 (2.3.14-2 but I dunno for older versions) depends upon ruby-actionmailer-2.3 which in turn depends on ruby-tmail >= 1.2.7~, but it's up to you of course as I don't know anything about Rails ;). Cheers, -- Arnaud Fontaine [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f37
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