On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
From http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
The relations allowed are <<, <=, =, >= and >> for strictly earlier,
earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly later,
respectively.
Also:
"The deprecated forms < and > were used to mean earlier/later or
equal, rather than strictly earlier/later, so they should not appear
in new packages (though dpkg still supports them)."
So I guess somebody was being sloppy with the meaning of < and >, and
it was easier to fix this by defining a new symbol rather than go
back and change all the old package definitions. Seems like that made
things even worse, though, since now we have two symbols that don't
mean what people expect them to mean. Oh well, at least now I know...
Thanks,
Trevor
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