Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: #661933
+ * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
+ Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Closes: #663918
-- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:33 -0700
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The relations allowed are <tt><<</tt>, <tt><=</tt>,
- <tt>=</tt>, <tt>>=</tt> and <tt>>></tt> for
- strictly earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or
- equal and strictly later, respectively. The deprecated
- forms <tt><</tt> and <tt>></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>>=</tt> and <tt>>></tt> for strictly
+ earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and
+ strictly later, respectively. The deprecated
+ forms <tt><</tt> and <tt>></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).
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