Andrew Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This may be silly, but here goes. I have downloaded the new version os >ssh due to the security announcement a little bit ago. Looking at its >depends I see that it requires libz1 but I can not find that package >anywhere on the debian site. I do have zlib1g installed. What's the >difference between the two packages? Can anyone tell me why there >would be that dependency to a package that as far as I can tell does >not exist? Thanks for you time.
If you do 'dpkg -p zlib1g', you'll see that it Provides: libz1. libz1 is a virtual package, like, say, mail-transport-agent, www-browser, and so on. Sometimes these describe functions that a package performs (so that a news server like inn can suggest the news-reader virtual package rather than any specific instance of it), sometimes - as in this case - they are present for backward compatibility. Note that the woody ssh package now depends on zlib1g directly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
