[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] [Pkg-virtualbox-commits] [virtualbox] 01/02: Remove many version contraints

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Fri Mar 20 11:21:30 UTC 2015


Are there good reasons why you want to drop the versioned dependencies ?
Does it bring any value by doing so ?

I see your justification, but Debian is a foundation project. Lots of
guys use it different ways. Unless dropping those versions bring in any
value, I don't see a reason why we should do so.


On Friday 20 March 2015 04:42 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.
>
> locutusofborg-guest pushed a commit to branch kfreebsd
> in repository virtualbox.
>
> commit a3188c06500c1bfd2e574c236d6cd1f889fab8b1
> Author: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>
> Date:   Fri Mar 20 12:09:32 2015 +0100
>
>     Remove many version contraints
> ---
>  debian/changelog |  7 +++++++
>  debian/control   | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 0d7b9f0..0ccf674 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> +
> +  * d/control: remove many version contraints checks, upper versions
> +    already in oldstable.
> +
> + -- Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>  Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:02:04 +0100
> +
>  virtualbox (4.3.26-dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium
>  
>    * Imported upstream release.
> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
> index fcebe33..569b92b 100644
> --- a/debian/control
> +++ b/debian/control
> @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
>                 debhelper (>= 9),
>                 default-jdk,
>                 dh-python,
> -               dkms (>= 2.1.1.1),
> +               dkms,
>                 docbook-xml,
>                 docbook-xsl,
> -               dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.6~),
> +               dpkg-dev,
>                 gcc-4.9,
>                 g++-4.9,
>                 g++-multilib ( << 4:5-0 ) [amd64],
> @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
>                 libpixman-1-dev,
>                 libpng-dev,
>                 libpulse-dev,
> -               libqt4-dev (>= 4.4.0),
> -               libqt4-network (>= 4.4.0),
> -               libqt4-opengl-dev (>= 4.4.0),
> +               libqt4-dev,
> +               libqt4-network,
> +               libqt4-opengl-dev,
>                 libsdl1.2-dev,
>                 libssl-dev,
>                 libvncserver-dev,
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Build-Depends: bzip2,
>                 lynx-cur,
>                 makeself,
>                 module-assistant,
> -               python-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~),
> +               python-dev,
>                 texlive-fonts-extra,
>                 texlive-fonts-recommended,
>                 texlive-latex-extra,
> @@ -77,10 +77,8 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git
>  
>  Package: virtualbox-qt
>  Architecture: amd64 i386
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
> -Breaks: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)
> -Replaces: virtualbox (<< 4.1.6-dfsg-2~)
>  Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
>   VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
>   of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a
> @@ -90,7 +88,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
>  
>  Package: virtualbox
>  Architecture: amd64 i386
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
>  Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-source (= ${source:Version}),
>              virtualbox-qt (= ${binary:Version}),
> @@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ Package: virtualbox-dbg
>  Section: contrib/debug
>  Priority: extra
>  Architecture: amd64 i386
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: virtualbox (= ${binary:Version}) | virtualbox-guest-utils (= ${binary:Version}),
>           ${misc:Depends}
>  Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols
> @@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - debugging symbols
>  Package: virtualbox-dkms
>  Section: contrib/kernel
>  Architecture: all
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: virtualbox (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
>  Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
>   VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
> @@ -165,7 +163,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source
>  Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
>  Section: contrib/kernel
>  Architecture: all
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
>  XB-Modaliases: ${modaliases}
>  Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
> @@ -199,7 +197,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source
>  Package: virtualbox-guest-x11
>  Section: contrib/x11
>  Architecture: amd64 i386
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: virtualbox-guest-utils (= ${binary:Version}),
>           ${misc:Depends},
>           ${shlibs:Depends},
> @@ -216,7 +214,7 @@ Description: x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
>  
>  Package: virtualbox-guest-utils
>  Architecture: amd64 i386
> -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
> +Pre-Depends: dpkg
>  Depends: adduser, pciutils, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
>  Recommends: virtualbox-guest-dkms (= ${source:Version}) | virtualbox-guest-source (= ${source:Version}),
>              virtualbox-guest-x11 (= ${binary:Version})
>


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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