Re: RC bug for >10 packages

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Adeodato Simó [Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:57:55 +0200]:

>   Package: apertium
>   Provides: apertium-pcre-1

> And then, each time you detect a new incompatible version of pcre, you
> make apertium Provide: apertium-pcre-2.

This is of course fragile, so you may want to go for:

   Package: apertium
   Depends: ${shlib:Depends}, libpcre3 (<< 7.X+1)
   Provides: apertium-pcre-1

And then apertium needs an extra upload for each new 7.X version of
pcre, after checking whether or not it breaks compatibility.

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