[DRE-maint] Bug#642382: redmine: >= 1.2 must depend on Rails >= 2.3.11~ and maybe TMail >= 1.2.7~
Arnaud Fontaine
arnau at debian.org
Thu Sep 22 09:04:29 UTC 2011
Jérémy Lal <jerry at edagames.com> writes:
> Thank you for your bug report, could you explain the meaning of tilda
> ~ in versions dependencies ? I can't find an explanation in debian
> docs.
It's useful to allow dependencies to be satisfied with pre-released
versions[0] (such as RC) and also to allow using backported packages for
rails (as backport version is something like 2.3.11-1~bpo60+1 for
2.3.11-1).
You can easily check with dpkg --compare-versions:
$ dpkg --compare-versions '2.3.11-1' '>' '2.3.11-1~bpo60+1' && echo true || echo false
true
BTW, after checking TMail, it does not seem necessary to explicitely add
it as ruby-rails-2.3 (2.3.14-2 but I dunno for older versions) depends
upon ruby-actionmailer-2.3 which in turn depends on ruby-tmail >=
1.2.7~, but it's up to you of course as I don't know anything about
Rails ;).
Cheers,
--
Arnaud Fontaine
[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f37
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