On Mar 20, 2016 4:31 PM, "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 12:39 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > Ian Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > > The Wanderer writes ("Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr"):
> > > >
> > > > Now, one thing which seems like it _could_ fix this without requiring a
> > > > MBF would be for firefox and firefox-esr to acquire 'Provides:
> > > > iceweasel'. That seems like a misuse of the system to me, however, and a
> > > > suboptimal solution at best.
> > > I don't understand what is wrong with this approach. It seems
> > > perfectly sensible to me.
> > Leaving aside any other reasons: many packages have a versioned
> > dependency on iceweasel, and we don't have versioned provides.
> [...]
>
> Yes we do, since dpkg 1.18.
Yet others parts of our infrastructure still need updates to handle then (e.g., britney).
Cheers,
James