Versioned provides ... a necessity !

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Hi,

i'm testing perl5.005 on my machine (cf .deb files on Darren's ftp
site : ftp://ftp.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental/) and the
first problem I had was that one of my package was broken because it
does depend on data-dumper (>= 2.08) but there's no more data-dumper
package because the new perl package does provide it. I'll correct
my package so that it does work but the best thing would be to
have a versionned provide (Provides: data-dumper (= 2.10)).

Furthermore, for binary perl module that will be installed under
versionned directories, they may have to depend on perl5.005 (a virtual
package that the perl package provides). That's a good solution but
then you cannot have versionned dependencies on perl5.005 ...

I'm just posting that to show that it's an important issue for dpkg. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/