Re: "Provides: foo" doesn't satisfy "Depends: foo"

2002-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:42:00AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > So, if I've installed libgd1-noxpm, which "Provides: libgd1", at version > 1.8.4-16, that satisfies analog's dependency on "libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-7)". > Right? Nope. dpkg doesn't handle versioned provides - a long-standing deficiency, but qu

"Provides: foo" doesn't satisfy "Depends: foo"

2002-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, (I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user, please Cc: me on replies.) On a box I administrate, I want to run analog. Analog "Depends: libgd1" to draw graphs: = $ apt-cache show analog |grep Depends Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-7), libjpeg62, libpcre3, libpng2