Date: 2016-12-07 18:11:26 +0100
From: Richard Hughes <<richard.monetdb>>
To: buildtools devs <>
Version: 11.23.13 (Jun2016-SP2)

Last updated: 2016-12-21 13:07:32 +0100

Comment 24759

Date: 2016-12-07 18:11:26 +0100
From: Richard Hughes <<richard.monetdb>>

Looks like a mistaken equality in the control file. < confusingly means <= (see paragraph 4 of https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html)

Fix:

diff -r ee4843caa75a debian/control
--- a/debian/control Wed Dec 07 15:18:10 2016 +0100
+++ b/debian/control Wed Dec 07 17:07:06 2016 +0000
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
Package: libmonetdb13
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Conflicts: libmonetdb5-server-geom (< ${source:Version})
+Conflicts: libmonetdb5-server-geom (<< ${source:Version})
Description: MonetDB core library
MonetDB is a database management system that is developed from a
main-memory perspective with use of a fully decomposed storage model,

Comment 24760

Date: 2016-12-08 09:57:07 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 1e281b8dc9a8 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=1e281b8dc9a8

Changeset description:

Utterly unconventional Debian syntax.
Fixes bug #6139.