Bug#22690: some observations

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Ian Jackson writes:
 > Peter Kundrat writes ("Bug#22690: some observations"):
 > > 
 > > apache-ssl depends on apache | apache-common but also provides apache (thats
 > > for 1.2.6+1.16-1). In case it remains in unpacked state problems begin.
 > 
 > The apache-ssl control file is silly, but I agree that dpkg shouldn't
 > behave like this either.
 > 
 > To the apache-ssl maintainer: can you fix the control file, please ?
 > 

This is only a problem with the version 1.2.6+1.16 in hamm. We had a
large discussion at that time which led to the introduction of
apache-common. At that time apache-ssl depent on apache-common but not
apache itself, so we had the problem that apache and apache-common
shared a common fileset and apache-ssl hat to conflict with apache but
also provide it to make packages working which depend on apache.

But this was resolved when the maintainer of apache split off an
apache-common package himself. So, there is no problem in the current
frozen (slink) and unstable (potato) version of apache-ssl which is
1.3.3.+1.29.

Christoph