Am 07.06.2015 um 12:49 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot: >> network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd >> plugin. > > Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a > versioned Breaks against ppp. > This is deliberate, since network-manager does not strictly need ppp. > The versioned Breaks is there to ensure that breakage due to a new ppp > upstream version with changed plugin path does not go unnoticed.
Sorry, the versioned Breaks: ppp (<< 2.4.6) obviously only helps too ensure that a recent enough version of ppp is installed. It doesn't guard against breakage due to new ppp upstream releases. I guess I would have to add a Breaks: ppp (>= 2.4.7) for that Thinking about this, something like this could be useful for such situations: Breaks: != ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 as counterpart to Depends: = ppp-abi-version-2.4.6 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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