On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:58:01 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > The "Provides: foo-api (>= 1.8)" mentioned elsewhere in the thread sounds > also neat for java packages, but it does not seem to be implemented.
It's '(= $version') and we do have these versioned Provides since a couple of years [0], they just haven't made their way into Policy yet: https://bugs.debian.org/761219 Cheers, gregor [0] Maybe not in all corners of the debiverse yet; ci.debian.net/autopkgtest is, TTBOMK, the last issue: https://bugs.debian.org/867081 One of the last fixed issues: https://bugs.debian.org/867104 -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #388: Bad user karma.