[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#527140: Bug#527140: virtualbox-ose-qt: Strange package relationships with virtualbox-ose

[Michael Meskes]

tag 527140 pending
thanks

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:07:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 1) Shouldn't the Depends be strongly versioned, i.e (= 2.2.2-dfsg-2)?

No, not really. It shouldn't be a problem to use different versions of the two packages.

> 2) Depending on and replacing the same package looks, eh, weird.
>    I assume it only replaces files in _previous_ versions of
>    virtualbox-ose [1]. If that is the case, wouldn't it make sense
>    to make that explicit by versioning the Replaces?

This makes a lot of sense, thanks fo reporting. Fixed in git.

Michael
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