Re: Replaces and virtual packages
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Christoph Pfisterer wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > While trying to set up a group of packages to be mutually-exclusive,
> > I've come across what I think is a bug in dpkg. First, some
> > background: I'm using dpkg 1.9.17 on Mac OS X (a.k.a. Darwin) in the
> > Fink project (http://fink.sourceforge.net). Fink has its own source
> > package format, but uses dpkg to install binary .deb packages (and
> > dpkg-deb to create them). I can provide the complete set of patches
> > used as well as example .deb packages if requested.
>
> If you are distributing this resultant binary, and you have patched dpkg, you
> MUST make the source changes available.
Ah, I see the patch. Looking it over now(some of this makes sense, and I'll
apply it to HEAD).
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