On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 12.07.2012 11:15, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>
>> That would make 'libavcodec53' a "virtual" package, which AFAIUI would
>> break versioned dependencies as dpkg does not support "versioned
>> provides".
>
>
> This doesn't sound like a problem as long as both binary packages are built
> from the same sources, e.g. the gnuplot package family does the same
> (gnuplot-qt Provides: gnuplot-x11 Provides: gnuplot-nox).
Well, it will be a problem for all application packages that link
against libavcodec, as it would effectively break the shlibs system.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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