On 2/2/07, Robert T Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > You'd have to rebuild the package--the Depends information is coded
> > into the .deb file.  (or you could manually unpack the .deb file, edit
> > the control file, and repack it).
> >
> > The issue is that fink treats 0:x.y.z = x.y.z, but apt thinks 0:x.y.z >> 
> > x.y.z
>
> Thanks! I understand now and was afraid that would be the answer. With
> almost any other package I would rebuild it at the drop of a hat, but
> of course it takes a bit longer with this particular one. (Manually
> editing the .deb would certainly be faster.) I hope that if it's fixed
> that the revision isn't bumped.... I'll probably go ahead and rebuild
> it anyway to keep apt-get happy and humming along.
>
> I suppose it's worth a feature request that the validator check for
> extraneous "%e:" on "unepoched" packages....
>
Yeah, we were talking about just that on IRC.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink Documenter (still)

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