Re: Dependency and priority mismatches

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Arto Astala wrote:

> Dale Scheetz:> 
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > 
> > > This is the resulting output:
> > > 
> > > Cannot satisfy with standard packages:
> > > 
> > > cvs: dependency zlib1g
> > > libc6-dev: dependency kernel-headers-2.0.32 (>= 2.0.32-2) | kernel-source-2.0.32 (>= 2.0.32-2)
> > 
> > At least kernel-headers will need to become standard.
> 
> all kernel-headers or just those needed by libc6-dev?
> 
> can the distinction be made?
> 
The distinction can be made because different kernel-header versions also
have different package names.

I would suggest that only the kernel header that matches the dependency of
libc6 should get the "standard" priority.

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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