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Bug#239725: should provide discover-udeb



David Nusinow wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:25:05PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > hw-detect depends on discover-udeb, so I think that discover1-udeb
> > should provide it. Currently the d-i initrd build process downloads
> > discover-udeb, but does not put it in the initrd, and in the initrd,
> > hw-detects dependency is unsatisfied.
> 
> Can a Provides: be the same name as a real package (i.e. discover1
> Provides: discover)?

In Debian yes.. 
In d-i, well, you'd have to ask waldi for sure. I note that
discover-udeb (2) currently provides, and conflicts with discover-udeb.

> > It might be better if discover 1 and 2 udebs both provided a third name,
> > like discover, then hw-detect could depend on that.
> 
> I've got the same question as above for this option :-)

This way would work fine, this method is used by many of the virtual
packages in d-i.

-- 
see shy jo

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