Re: binaries provided by multiple source packages
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> The following is a list of packages whose names are inconsistent with
> accepted behaviour (plz correct me if im wrong)
Sorry for my ignorance but which is the accepted behaviour? i couldn't
find anything in the policies and in devel-reference (just had a fast look
trough them)
> To my knowledge if a package is provided by multiple sources, then a
> virtual package should be used.
Why do i need a virtual package? and which one should be considering the
apache-perl case?
> apache-perl (apache, apache-perl)
> libapache-mod-perl (apache, libapache-mod-perl)
wearing my apache maintainer hat, apache-perl needs libapache-mod-perl to
build and vice versa... shipping them togheter solves a lot of troubles..
Thanks
Fabio
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