Hi, I have noticed that a number of packages provide themselves, ie they have a Provides: line that mentions their name. This seems to be a pointless exercize, but perhaps I am missing something? ddd and et both do this in hamm and my status file has kpathsea and libg++27-dev as well. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .