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Author Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version
Russ Allbery

2005-11-09, 5:54 pm

Christopher Crammond <ccrammond@opencountry.com> writes:

> I was wondering if someone could provide me with some additional
> information related to Debian packaging. Specifically, I would like to
> know if there is a way to determine which version of Debian that a
> package belongs to?


Any version of Debian that satisfies the package dependencies.

> As a comparison, RPM offers an optional field for Distribution. While
> not required, most packages to fill in this field and it provides of
> means of determine the intended flavor of Linux.


That's because most RPMs don't use dependencies properly, so this sort of
hack is required.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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