On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:02:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > * Depends on sysvinit (>= 2.72), which is not available on the Hurd. > > A provides in some Hurd package is not good enough because dpkg can't > > cope with versioned dependencies on provided packages last time I checked. > > What's wrong with having an empty sysvinit? I'm certain other packages would > have this same issue, not just dpkg. Because having 100 dummy packages is just ugly and bloat the archive. What's wrong with fixing the actual problem? The problem here is that we don't have versioned provides. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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