Re: Self Referencing depends
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides
> unzip make unzip to be a virtual package?
Yes. Though other packages can still have "Depends:", "Conflicts:" etc. with
the concrete pkunzip package if there is a version number mentioned, I
think.
> If so, should I ask unzip and zip to be added to the authoritative list of
> virtual packages?
Perhaps. It would be very useful if someone could go over the actual virtual
packages (grep '^Provides:' /var/lib/dpkg/available) and see what other
virtual packages ought to be registered with the authorative list.
Ray
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