Re: Dependency strangeness (dpkg bug?)
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
> > Versions of the packages libpgjava depends on:
> > ii libpgsql 6.3.2-12 Shared library for PostgreSQL
> > ii jdk1.1 1.1.6v4a-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) - Runtime o
> > ^^^ (Provides virtual package jdk1.1-runtime)
> >
> > What's going on here? Why does dpkg not realize that jdk1.1 is
> > providing jdk1.1-runtime?
>
> libpgjava needs a particular version of jdk1.1-runtime (>= 1.1.3.v2-1),
> dpkg doesn't undertand "versioned provides" (long standing bug), and a
> "non-versioned provide" isn't enough.
I know one can't do versioned provides. I thought that dpkg was
simply supposed to ignore the version when dealing with something that
provides an item that is depended upon?
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