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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] How broken are RPM dependencies allowed to be?</H1>
    <B>Dan Fandrich</B> 
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    <I>Thu Dec 15 10:36:49 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:37:37PM +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
&gt;<i> Versionned dependencies are added when they are needed to allow correct
</I>&gt;<i> updates on stable release or upgrades from one release to an other
</I>&gt;<i> (installing all available updates, not only some of them), for example
</I>&gt;<i> to require installing some packages in the same transaction. Or when
</I>&gt;<i> the dependencies can be detected and added automatically. But I don't
</I>&gt;<i> think you should expect to be able to take any package from any release
</I>&gt;<i> and install it on an other release with accurate dependencies.
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This is exactly the kind of policy statement I was hoping to find somewhere. 
If this is the consensus, I'm happy to update the wiki with this added
detail.

But when you say &quot;from one release to another&quot;, presumably you want to
limit how many releases back you want to bother supporting. There's not
much point in checking for a minimum version that hasn't shipped for 5 years.

&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Dan
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