[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#454117: Bug#454117: hpijs: depends on hplip

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Mark Purcell wrote:
> Currently hpijs Depends: hplip (>= ${hplip:binary:Version})
> 
> Which would allow one to have hpijs on hold and upgrade hplip which would 
> break eventually as ABI compatibility isn't certain.
> 
> We want either to Depends: hplip (= ${hplip:binary:Version}) or perhaps 
> libhpip (= ${hplip:binary:Version}).

Speaking as the old hplip maintainer, in the past it was good enough to
limit dependencies to the same upstream version.  So, if the very strict
dependency causes you trouble, it could be enough to fall back to depending
just on the same upstream version.

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