PPA Build Error/Tilde In Version

Onkar Shinde onkarshinde at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 08:39:17 GMT 2008


Will Daniels wrote:
> Hi, I just got the following error from the PPA build system:
>
> After installing, the following source dependencies are still unsatisfied:
> libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil(inst 0.3~svn.r90520-1 ! >= wanted 0.3)
> libmono-addins0.2-cil(inst 0.3~svn.r90520-1 ! >= wanted 0.3)
> Source-dependencies not satisfied; skipping monodevelop
>
> I would have thought 0.3~svn.r90520-1 >= 0.3 or am I confused about the
> significance of the tilde character in the version? I can't find much
> about this with Google, perhaps someone can explain to me whether it's a
> bug or how the version naming works here?  Maybe the problem has to do
> with the 0.2 in the package name?
>
> Sorry if it's a stupid question!
>   
'~' represents '<'.

You should use 0.3+svn.r90520-1to represent '>'.


Onkar



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