On 13 Sep 2008, at 18:34, Benjamin Reed wrote:

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> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> I didn't realize it, but fink supports a dependency of the form
>> ( =<version> ) without specifying a revision.
>>
>> If all octave-using packages agree to use Depends: octave ( =<current
>> version> ) | octave-atlas ( =<current version> ) [or an equivalent]
>> rather than ( >=<current version>-1), then that will satisfy the  
>> prior
>> breakage issue in a simpler packaging setup.
>
> Will it?  I thought that if you don't give a revision, it treats it  
> as 0
> internally.

had something like that in mind too;
on the other hand,
(>= %v-1) together with (<= %v-9999)
should work, and be equivalent, no ?

JF

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