Tom Diehl wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
>Hi all
>
>When I saw that an update for slang was available, I issued an apt-get
>install slang, and thought that it would pull slang-devel too. It didnt:
># rpm -qR slang-devel
>slang = 1.4.9
>
>
You are getting confused.
Nope, you are :-) The
"I issued an apt-get install slang, and thought that it would pull
slang-devel too."
.. is a red herring. He already has slang _and_ slang-devel installed
and expected the dep resolution on "apt-get install slang" to force an
upgrade of slang-devel too. Because the dep in slang-devel is only on
the version and not the release of slang it didn't force the update.
The question was - should the slang-devel "Requires:" specify just a
version dep or both version and release? Peronally I think you're better
off with a full epoch:version-release dep between the devel->parent as
quite often build time options are enough to mangle autogenerated
development material.
Carwyn