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Document requirements with - suffix more clearly #7885

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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion doc/manual/packages.rst
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Expand Up @@ -460,6 +460,12 @@ For example, the line::
Distributions 0.1

is satisfied by any version of ``Distributions`` greater than or equal to ``0.1.0``.
Suffixing a version with `-` allows any pre-release versions as well. For example::

Distributions 0.1-

is satisfied by pre-release versions such as ``0.1-dev`` or ``0.1-rc1``, or by any version greater than or equal to ``0.1.0``.

This requirement entry::

Distributions 0.1 0.2.5
Expand All @@ -469,7 +475,6 @@ If you want to indicate that any ``0.1.x`` version will do, you will want to wri

Distributions 0.1 0.2-

The ``0.2-`` "pseudo-version" is less than all real version numbers that start with ``0.2``.
If you want to start accepting versions after ``0.2.7``, you can write::

Distributions 0.1 0.2- 0.2.7
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