On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:35, David Kalnischkies <kalnischk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:17, Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.de> wrote: >> How can I tell a Debian package to conflict with a real >> package "foo", but not with other packages providing "foo"? > > That is easy: You can't.
I meant to include a relative important footnote here: debian-policy §7.5 actually says: "If a relationship field has a version number attached, only real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a conflict or breakage)." This doesn't reflect current APT-reality through, as it will check the version number of the provider against the attached version number instead. So this might or might not be what you want. I wouldn't depend on that either way… I think dpkg does it as advertised, but i am not sure. Haven't checked other dpkg-frontends. Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAZ6_fAT07xW=hy3uqkuo+vkm9lcm9f9tvlsm0xbdlnsxz4...@mail.gmail.com
