package dependencies on versions

[Scott Kitterman]

Robie Basak <robie.basak at canonical.com> wrote:

>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.

Redmine is already packaged.  Why are you making a new package?

Scott K