James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
Completely true. See bug 24934 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=24934#10 Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
