Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode:
> > Usually it is a Suggests from another existing package.
>
> If I run "apt-cache depends gnome-shell", it says:
> Recommends: gdm
> Breaks: gdm
>
> Is this normal, having a package both as recommended and as breaking?
The "Breaks:" stanza is versioned, meaning that gnome-shell can't work with
certain old versions of gdm3. This really matters only for partial
upgrades.
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