On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, Christian Marillat wrote: > > Which bad practice ? > > Introducing virtual packages of your choice by matters of Provides: > this breaks versionned dependencies in the Debian archive as your > packages (with the virutal provide) always satisfy the dependency, even > if the version doesn't match.
No, the problem is dpkg doesn't support versioned Provides: and so the dependency can never be satisfied even if the version is ok (which it is, not that I think it should be versioned in this case). -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 /
