[Build-common-hackers] Bug#725950: Bug#725950: Bug#725950: cdbs: allow version ranges in DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_foo

[Vasudev Kamath]

IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> writes:

Hi IOhannes,

> On 2013-10-10 17:19, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Great approach!
>> 
>> I've wanted to deal with this for some time but wanted and approach that 
>> was backporting-friendly, which this could be.
>> 
>> I am pretty bogged down currently - will you try implement it?
>
> attached is an attempt.
> i don't dare to push that directly to cdbs-git.

I just checked the patch but I'm not clear how this new feature should
be used commit message says semicolon but eg shows usage of comma
instead. I installed the patched version and did following

DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOMAKE = ,12 

I was expecting it to generate automake (>= 1:1.12) but instead
generated version was automake (<= 12) which seems to me as wrong
because there is no such version in archive.

I may be wrong in understanding the usage so can you please clarify how
the patch is supposed to be used?.

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