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Bug#221213: partconf: Uninstallable due to broken depends



Am Mo, den 17.11.2003 schrieb Colin Watson um 13:30:

> > I once proposed that all library udebs should Provide the name of the
> > "original" library. Then we will be able to use shlibs to resolve
> > dependencies also for udebs.
> 
> That'll only do you any good if udpkg implements versioned provides. I
> haven't checked, but since dpkg doesn't implement them ...

Well, udpkg does not even handle versioned Depends... So as the
situation is now we do only care about names. Hence my proposal would
work. However we should investigate if it would be a good idea to
implement version tracking for the future.

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