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ola,
i have a question regarding one of the packages i'm co-maintaining
("puredata", a graphical realtime computer music language).
when "puredata" was packaged first (~1999), this was done under the name
of "pd".
later it has been re-named to "puredata", which in turn "Provides: pd",
with "pd" being a virtual package for the "language/environment".
this is starting to become useful now, as there are plans to package
another implementation of the engine, which would also "Provide: pd".
recently, the package has been split into a number of binary packages,
e.g. the language interpreter can now be installed separately from its
editor.
the "puredata" binary package is now a meta-package depending on its
components.
after the split, both the "puredata-core" package (the interpreter) and
"puredata" (the meta package, that also "Depends: puredata-core"), have
now a "Provides: pd" clause in debian/control
i'm a bit unsure, what the best practice for the "Provides:" clause
would be in such a case.
somehow, having 2 (interdependent) packages provide the same virtual
package seems wrong to me.
there is also a bug-report[652383], that _might_ be related to the
double "Provides:" line, though i was unable to reproduce the reported
bug on my machine.
any thoughts on this?
fgmasdr
IOhannes
[652383] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652383
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