[perl-Coro] 5.37 bump
Petr Pisar
ppisar at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 14:00:53 UTC 2011
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:11:10PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On 21/02/11 12:45, Petr Pisar wrote:
>
> > Injecting 0 is pointless. Better no version than useless 0.
>
> On the contrary, no version is equivalent to "any version" as far as rpm
> is concerned, which is a problem waiting to happen and why rpmlint will
> complain about it if you explicitly add an unversioned provide. Adding a
> version of 0 means that any sane versioning scheme introduced by
> upstream in the future will be "newer" than what you've already used.
>
> At this time there shouldn't be any versioned requires on these provides
> since upstream doesn't version them, so having a version 0 provide
> shouldn't break anything.
>
We talked about it already. In my opinion it's a bug in RPM dependency solver.
It's cheating rpmlint and RPM. No more, no less.
-- Petr
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