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- Make "new" packages (with disttags) be treated better
by the "old" disttag-unaware rpm in some cases; primarily those with
< and/or > Conflicts on another subpackage. This form of Conflicts
is used to ensure that no subpackages from different releases/builds
get installed together. (A better way to express this is to add a
common subpackage that all other subpackages depend on.) This change
doesn't affect the way the "new" rpm would treat packages with such
deps (ALT#35930):
+ rewrite < and > dependencies so that they have almost the same meaning when
treated by old disttag-unaware tools;
+ %EVR macro (for intersubpackage deps) upgraded to include %disttag
(given the other change, this is only useful for making the rare
Conflicts: subpkg = %EVR more compatible with disttag-unaware tools).
- checkinstall subpackage added.
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