How to setup debian/control to force updating a library?

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Published on 2012-12-16T20:25:03Z Indexed on 2012/12/16 23:20 UTC
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This question is aimed at PPA/packages maintainers.

I have a PPA with 2 packages:

mypackage (currently version 1~ppa1~quantal)
mypackagelib (currently version 1~ppa1~quantal)

Currently, the control file of mypackage has:

Depends: mypackagelib

I want to update the 2 packages to version '2' (mypackage version 2 and mypackagelib version 2).

How can I make sure that the 2 packages will be updated when the user updates 'mypackage' ?

FYI, changing the 'Depends' field to:

Depends: mypackagelib (>= 2)

does NOT work, and returns the following error:

mypackage : Depends: mypackagelib (>= 2) but mypackagelib-2~ppa1~quantal is to be installed

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