On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:04:42 +0100, I wrote: > '>' and '>=' would make the dependency less strong, since e.g. > 2.0-0.beta11 is > 2.0 Ignore this, please. It's truncated, I got distracted, it doesn't make sense. Correct would be: 2.0-0.beta11 is _not_ > 2.0 as it's equal to 2.0 in a ">= 2.0" dependency.