Bug#221213: partconf: Uninstallable due to broken depends

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Sebastian Ley <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> 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.

It won't.

get-packages uses apt to download packages and get-packages is used to
downoad the udebs for the cdrom image. Thats how I got the error
messages in the first place.

MfG
        Goswin