On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 03:14:56PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > IMHO, the only thing missing in the debian schemes is a special > > `Provides: <package> (=version)' who can resolved dependencies with > > version (notes that only the equal sign is meaningful here and > > <package> should be a real package name, not a virtual one). This is a > > lot of complex changes but will open Debian to a world of possibility > > (especially new parallel distributions and more configurability). > > APT fully supports versioned provides, but does not parse the information > out of the Package description files (no agree upon format, no dpkg > support). Someday it might get enabled. > > Jason Oh well, seems I didn't read carefully the new version of the Packaging manual. Can you point me to somewhere where I can find something about the disagreement for the format (which I don't understand, it seems pretty unmeaningful to make a package provides a range of version, it's like having a package with more than one version!). I currently try to make me up-to-date with the development of debian and it appears that I missed lot of things... thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles E-mail: fab@tzone.org WebPage: http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~94246757 You can get my public key from your nearest public keys server! RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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