Re: dpkg versioned provides support and Policy
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:24:29AM +0100, Gerhard Muntingh wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > Yet, that is the whole
> > idea... The same problem happened recently with libpng2 providing libpng1.
>
> libpng2 provides libpng1? I thought the entire idea of p2 and p1 was
> that they have different interfaces, so they can coexist with each
> other.
What actually is happening is the libpng-dev (libpng3) package provides
libpng2-dev and the libpng2-dev (libpng2) package provides libpng-dev.
I don't particularly like that but the buildd's seem to still work
properly (so far).
Chris Cheney
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