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algorythm

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From: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/FIN

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 181

pacman-color(-testing) needs to depend on "pacman=${pkgver}"?

Hey,

So I've been thinking about this for some time now and I'd be interested in hearing other people's opinions about this. So my package pacman-color-testing currently depends on "pacman=${pkgver}" - meaning it requires the same version of pacman as the package itself - but the thing is: does it really need to?

I imagine keeping the pacman dependency in a single major version wouldn't produce any problems, eg. the current pacman-color(-testing) of 3.4.x would require this: depends=('pacman>=3.4' 'pacman<3.5'). This would also make updating easier.

At least the pacman change log here doesn't really show any "behavior compromising" changes between bug fix releases for pacman-color(-testing): http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS

But then what's other people's stance on this?

Last edited by algorythm (2011-03-08 15:53:21)

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cantabile

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Registered: 2010-06-29

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Re: pacman-color(-testing) needs to depend on "pacman=${pkgver}"?

Sure, why not.

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algorythm

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From: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/FIN

Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 181

Re: pacman-color(-testing) needs to depend on "pacman=${pkgver}"?

I assume you don't mean "sure, why wouldn't pacman-color* need to depend on "pacman=${pkgver}"" .

Last edited by algorythm (2011-03-09 14:05:12)

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“If everybody thought alike, no one would be thinking very much.”  — Walter Lippmann (adapted)
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