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bug #60127: pkg: DESCIPTION "Depends" keyword should support != and ~= operators

Submitter:	Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Submitted:	Fri 26 Feb 2021 03:33:05 PM UTC


Category:	Interpreter	Severity:	1 - Wish
Priority:	3 - Low	Item Group:	Feature Request
Status:	Postponed	Assigned to:	None
Originator Name:	Reissner	Open/Closed: *	Open
Release: *	dev	Operating System: *	Any
Fixed Release:	None	Planned Release:	None

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Thu 26 Aug 2021 08:25:06 PM UTC, comment #8: Sorry I got distracted again. Bad times early this year. I'll give it another try.	Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Thu 11 Mar 2021 03:30:17 PM UTC, comment #7: Sorry got distracted. Next guess: this weekend (12-14 Mar).	Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Tue 02 Mar 2021 07:44:14 PM UTC, comment #6: I already got it working to some extent. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to supply a patch.	Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Mon 01 Mar 2021 02:00:20 AM UTC, comment #5: @Ernst: The priority is not raised to "low". To my experience, this "Priority" has marginal effect on the speed of working on items. There are also "7 high priority" bugs which haven't been resolved for years (e.g. bug #46849) 😇 What seems to me as "best strategy" is to make your bug precise and small in scope, interesting for others, and to be helpful and cooperative (provide an own patch, as you suggested). Can you alongside with your patch provide a minimal demo package to try out the patch? @Philip: You are right, it seems to boil down to your suggestions of comment #3 https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/b03104e38964/scripts/pkg/private/get_description.m#l107	Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
Sun 28 Feb 2021 10:30:47 PM UTC, comment #4: you are right. Easy to do. I would contribute a patch if that helps to fix fast.	Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Sun 28 Feb 2021 10:16:07 PM UTC, comment #3: Looks like it's merely a matter of amending the regexp on L.107 and adding the operators in L.121 of pkg.m's private function get_description.m. AFAICS all the other required code is in place - compare_versions.m (called in get_unsatisfied_dependencies.m) already supports those operators. Fixing the regexp is probably the hardest part.	Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Sun 28 Feb 2021 12:31:32 PM UTC, comment #2: Yes, you are right, it is a feature request. Please dont put priority to later, because it is important in particular for java implementations, as octave developers frequently break my code and so there are lots of gaps in the version working properly. This is the use case of ~= operator. On the other hand, it is easy to provide as version comparison is done with `compare_versions` which already supports ==, != and ~=. This means it is little effort to implement. So summarizing, it is little effort and much help. Please consider not downvoting priority.	Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Sat 27 Feb 2021 05:27:46 AM UTC, comment #1: Thank you for the hint. According to the documentation https://octave.org/doc/v6.2.0/The-DESCRIPTION-File.html these operators are not supported yet and it is a feature request.	Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
Fri 26 Feb 2021 03:33:05 PM UTC, original submission: As my package works for 5.2.0 and again for 6.2.0 but not for 6.1.0 because of a bug in octave, I want to write in the DESCRIPTION file the dependency Depends: octave (>= ${versionOctaveMin}), octave (<= ${versionOctaveMax}), octave (~= 6.1.0) maybe with !=. That way one can specify an interval with gaps. Unfortunately this seems not possible : "Invalid call to strtrim."	Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>

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Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	Replaced by
2021-03-01	siko1056	Priority	1 - Later	3 - Low
2021-02-27	siko1056	Severity	3 - Normal	1 - Wish
		Priority	5 - Normal	1 - Later
		Item Group	Installation Failure	Feature Request
		Status	None	Postponed
		Release	6.2.0	dev
		Summary	DESCIPTION Depends: != and ~= missing	pkg: DESCIPTION "Depends" keyword should support != and ~= operators
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