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Re: dose3 support for versioned provides (was: Re: Bits from the dpkg project: 1.17.x series, general news)



Hi,

Am Samstag, den 18.04.2015, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer:
> for source packages that require versioned virtual packages, dose3 support for
> this is needed because otherwise the affected source packages will remain
> bd-uninstallable.  But right now dose3 can only parse versioned provides but
> does not treat them correctly yet.  This is this bug:
> 
> https://gforge.inria.fr/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=17556&group_id=4395&atid=13808

Thanks.

> Since the build infrastructure runs stable, it might be tricky to be able to
> upload source packages relying on versioned virtual packages before the next
> stable release (assuming this dose3 bug is fixed during the next release
> cycle).

I hope that in such cases, we can have the fixed programs in
jessie-backports and installed from there?

Greetings,
Joachim

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