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On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 11:25 -0700, Christopher Clark wrote:
> In testing, this constraint of package version doesn't produce the
> build behaviour I was hoping for: bitbake doesn't enforce the version
> constraint at build time and from earlier related posts on the
> mailing list, this behaviour is known, so presumably is intentional.

"Intentional" isn't right. We want to support it but have never gotten
around to it. Making DEPENDS support version info was the first step
which we did, so we can add the info but nothing currently acts on it.

Cheers,

Richard