Darren Stalder wrote: > Is it possible for dpkg to have a depends line similar to: > Depends: perl (=5.005) > and have that include 5.005-\d+? Or will I need to put a
= means equal. I guess it's logical that 5.005 != 5.005-1 Thus I believe it would need to use (>= 5.005-0) > Provides: perl5.005 > in so that packages can depend on that? > > (Note that I did say that this would break *all* debian installed > packages in the change release.) (I thought that debian-devel had reached a consensous that it's not a good idea to change the perl version less than 14 days before the code freeze.) Regards, Joey -- There are lies, statistics and benchmarks.