On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:38:24AM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote: > I am the maintainer of the FreeType Debian packages. There has been > suggestion to rename freetype2 (FreeType 1.3.1) to libttf2, which is > actually the right thing to do since FreeType 1.3.1's library is called > /usr/lib/libttf.so.2.2.0. However, AFAIK, dpkg does not yet support > versioned dependency and yet many packages have versioned dependency on > freetype2 (>= 1.3.1). Of course dpkg supports versioned Depends:. It doesn't (yet) support versioned Provides:. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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