package dependencies on versions

[Robie Basak]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 09:54:01PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I could use some little assistance in packaging and version dependencies.
> 
> My remdine source package creates a bunch of binary packages:
> 
> * 'redmine': metapackage pulling in redmine-core and one redmine-pgsql, redmine-mysql or redmine-sql
> * 'redmine-core': the actual redmine code
> * 'redmine-mysql' / 'redmine-pgsql' / 'redmine-sqlite': metapackage pulling in the database backend dependencies
> 
> Now, I'd like to make sure, that all of these packages are always on the same version by dependencies.
> 
> How can I do that ?

Your other binary packages could use fixed version dependencies like:

    Depends: redmine-core (= ${source:Version})

See deb-substvars(5) for details.

There may be a better way that I'm not aware of though.