Control: tags -1 + wontfix Ansgar: > Sylvestre Ledru writes: >> Le 17/10/2019 à 09:25, Ansgar a écrit : >>> in addition a 256kB Provides field seems very hard on the total size of >>> the Packages index. Please don't do that... >>> >> To be clear, this isn't done by a human. This is a tool generating >> this for us. > > Then the tool has a problem. It really seems excessive to add four > Provides for every feature: > > librust-web-sys+abortcontroller-dev (= 0.3.28-1) > librust-web-sys-0+abortcontroller-dev (= 0.3.28-1) > librust-web-sys-0.3+abortcontroller-dev (= 0.3.28-1) > librust-web-sys-0.3.28+abortcontroller-dev (= 0.3.28-1) > > Clearly the information is already available via the version > information... (I doubt even adding a Provides for every feature should > be done.) >
The tool's algorithm was suggested by the maintainer of dpkg and has his blessing. It is partly due to limitations in dpkg, see #901827 for details. This bug is only really fixable once the dpkg limitation is fixed, which can't happen (apparently) for a whole stable release cycle. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
