[pacman-dev] [PATCH] test version range restrictions corner case

[Allan McRae]

On 08/12/15 06:37, Dominik Fischer wrote:
> The test introduced herein illustrates a behavior that may be unexpected
> to package writers.
> 
> It creates a package "pkg3" that is configured to depend on a
> "dependency" which version is between 3 and 4, inclusive. Two other
> packages are already present, providing "dependency" in version 2 and 5,
> respectively. So, the situation looks roughly like this:
> 
>                  pkg1               pkg3                pkg2
>                provides          depends on           provides
>                   |            <------------>            |
> version __________2____________3____________4____________5___________...
> 
> This seems to be enough to satisfy pacman when installing "pkg3". From
> an iterative standpoint, this is completely logical: First, the
> requirement "dependency>=3" is checked. There is a package that
> satisfies this restriction, it is called "pkg2". Afterwards,
> "dependency<=4" is covered in the same way by "pkg1".
> 
> Nonetheless, what a package writer intends when specifying
> 
>   depends=('dependency>=3' 'dependency<=4')
> 
> is most probably that pacman should only allow this package to be
> installed when there indeed is a package present that provides a version
> of "dependency" that lies _between_ 3 and 5.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Fischer <d dot f dot fischer at web dot de>
> ---
> 
> This behavior may be intended though. If so, this corner case should
> perhaps be noted in the documentation. Please review and comment.
> 

Pulled with a change to the description (describe why this is wrong) and
added the expected failure marker.

Also corrected the ">" and "<" in the test to "<=" and ">=" to match the
commit description.

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