Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/meta-pkgs

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2016-06-16 at 13:41 BST, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:39:55PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > * On 2016-06-16 at 13:37 BST, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > 
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     wiz
> > > Date:             Thu Jun 16 12:37:54 UTC 2016
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/texlive-collection-latex: Makefile
> > >   pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/texlive-collection-latex-doc: Makefile
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Fix tex-fix2col* version in dependency pattern.
> > 
> > I'm not sure we can do this, the version has gone backwards which is
> > going to cause problems for updating.
> > 
> > I pinged Mark about this and the other pbulk fallout already.
> 
> Sure we can, that's why I have added an upper bound on the dependency.

I didn't mean technically from a DEPENDS point of view, I meant that
as package versions going backwards is a bad thing and will cause
problems with binary packages, we should resolve that rather than
kludging the dependency.

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