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Re: i dont understand something or dpkg is simply buggy



On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:30:55AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> The problem here is that dpkg doesn't support versioned provides.
> If you install libgnome-perl you have a virtual libgtk-imlib-perl
> on your system. However since virtual packages don't have versions
> dpkg cannot satisfy the versioned dependency that econfigedit apparently
> has it complains.

Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?

-- 
Raul


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