tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jason L Tibbitts III) writes: > ES> * I do not say that versioned dependency shall be forbidden; they > ES> just do not make sense and I am against a rule like > | If these versions are specified by the package, they should be > | indicated in the spec file (IMO). > > This makes no sense to me. So if Red Hat bumps the FC5 PHP from 5.1.4 > to 5.1.5 to fix some bug and a package requires that fixed version, > what is it supposed to require? In this case you you will have to use a versioned dependency but this is different from "specified by the package". E.g. when php-5.1.4-1 has a bug which will be fixed by a patch (which fixes only this issue without a full version upgrade) you have to write | Requires: php >= 5.1.4-2 and can not follow README which says that 5.1.5 will be required. The version in the Requires: depends on the environment but not on the requirement told by the (upstream) package. In the discussed case, the version in "php >= 4.2.0" is redundant in FE environments and except for 3rd party repository-support there is no reason to use it resp. to enforce it. Enrico
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