Prohibit deprecated < and > relations

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4fd60d909ecebd4653601bd57fefe098a5cbe656..52dbb26aabe2dc7a8444aa07ff961154b65de073 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -4607,13 +4607,13 @@ fi
 
        <p>
          The relations allowed are <tt>&lt;&lt;</tt>, <tt>&lt;=</tt>,
-         <tt>=</tt>, <tt>&gt;=</tt> and <tt>&gt;&gt;</tt> for
-         strictly earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or
-         equal and strictly later, respectively.  The deprecated
-         forms <tt>&lt;</tt> and <tt>&gt;</tt> were used to mean
-         earlier/later or equal, rather than strictly earlier/later,
-         so they should not appear in new packages (though
-         <prgn>dpkg</prgn> still supports them).
+         <tt>=</tt>, <tt>&gt;=</tt> and <tt>&gt;&gt;</tt> for strictly
+         earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and
+         strictly later, respectively.  The deprecated
+         forms <tt>&lt;</tt> and <tt>&gt;</tt> were confusingly used to
+         mean earlier/later or equal, rather than strictly earlier/later,
+         and must not appear in new packages (though <prgn>dpkg</prgn>
+         still supports them with a warning).
        </p>
 
        <p>