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Re: Status of Enhances field?



On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:

> (I know this should be asked in debian-dpkg, but I think the answer
> is of general interest).
>
> Which is the status of the Enhances field?
>
> It is more like A or like B below?
>
> A. Some tools recognize it, some tools don't. Those who don't just ignore it.
> B. At least one tool break horribly if you use it.

dpkg has it as a recognized field.  But nothing else has been done with it.

policy documents it.  I consider this a bug, as how it can it document
something that is not even implemented.



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