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bug #60056: package dependency fails if intermediate version

Submitter:  Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Submitted:  Sun 14 Feb 2021 06:22:25 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  reissner Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 21 Feb 2021 12:48:20 PM UTC, comment #2: 

It might be possible to set a minimum version of "octave (>= 4.3.0)". But you probably shouldn't.

Closing report.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Mon 15 Feb 2021 08:20:34 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Such a version was never released. That version number was used in the development cycle for Octave 4.4. If the package relies on features that have been added in that development cycle, some of that intermediate builds might fulfill the package requirements, others might not.
It's probably not a good idea for packages to target the version number of development builds.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Sun 14 Feb 2021 06:22:25 PM UTC, original submission:  

Once there was a version 4.3.0+ but the package manager does not allow to set a dependency octave (>= 4.3.0+)
This would be very good, in particular with java based packages,
because implementation of the interface is quite fragile.

I think, there should be clear which versions can occur
and these must be supported by the package manager.
Alternatively, there shall be an entry in the docs
giving a hint that this does not work.

Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>

 

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