Re: confused with udeb Depends: control field
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:49:52PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>> I looked at Packages file that describes udebs, and found that there is
>> NO udeb with Package field set to 'libdebian-installer4'.
>> Although there is libdebian-installer4-udeb that Provides:
>> libdebian-installer4, versuioned deps can't be satisfied by Provides:
>
> Where is this documented? Please note that the policy don't apply to
> udebs.
It is not handled by apt. And apt is used to build d-i images.
It works only because currently libraries are required to be installed on
host to build image, and apt uses information from host's status while
resolving udeb dependences.
It's complete mess IMO.
>> However, this confuses me. Why Depends: of udebs do ANYTHING with what is
>> installed on host? Versioned dependency on libdebian-installer4 is not
>> the single example. E.g. main-menu 0.061 udeb has 'libc6 (>=
>> 2.3.2.ds1-4)' in it's Depends.
>
> Because udebs current are not able to have the same name than debs.
So why udebs don't depend on libc-udeb, libdebian-installer4-udeb, etc?
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