On 2016-11-01 08:40 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12:45PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
>> As far as I understand it, nothing can provide emacs25 except for the
>> emacs25 binary package (because emacs25 already exists as a binary
>> package)[1].
>
> I don't think this is true, but I don't have any hands-on experience
> with Provides: foo where foo already exists.
I have. ;-)
,----
| $ apt-cache show emacs25-nox | grep ^Provides:
| Provides: editor, emacs25, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader
`----
> Do you expect dak to reject the upload, or the provides simply to have
> no effect?
Neither of those is true, see Policy ยง7.5. Although this fails to
mention that Provides can now be versioned, see bug #761219[1].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761219
