Roger Leigh wrote:
Hi folks, Following some discussion with Marco d'Itri about inetd, I'd like to put forward some more general thoughts on virtual package handling for some comments. Currently, virtual packages (such as mail-transport-agent) cannot be specified by themselves. They can only be used in combination with a non-virtual package which provides the default implementation. For example:
I just hope this is not true, because there are thousands packages in the archive depending on libc6-dev, or libc6-dev | libc-dev. Both libc6-dev and libc-dev are virtual packages on some architectures (such as alpha or ia64).
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