[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Autoversion deps upon package creation in makepkg

[Darwin Bautista]

Hi all,

Attached is a patch to add "autoversion of dependencies" in makepkg. I
think the usage of the term "autoversion" is a little vague but I
can't of any other term. Anyway, autoversioning will save package
maintainers a lot of time in adding and bumping the minimum required
versions of a certain package's dependencies directly in the PKGBUILD.
Of course, this autoversioning can be overridden by directly
specifying the minimum/maximum (if ever)/exact version of a dep.
Autoversioning can be disabled by using these opts: '-v' or
'--nodepsver'.

I've seen quite a lot of packages (extra, community) which have
"out-dated" or wrong minimum versions of the deps. For instance, I've
seen a package (which I can't remember) of a KDE app built against KDE
3.5.8 yet the specified minimum version is 3.5.7 (or older?). This can
help prevent bugs resulting from this seemingly subtle issue.

-- 
Darwin M. Bautista
BS Electronics and Communications Engineering
University of the Philippines Diliman
http://www.darwin.uk.to

University of the Philippines Linux Users' Group
http://www.uplug.org
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