Bug#180316: dpkg: won't remove fileutils even though coreutils provides fileutils

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:03:14PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> ######## THE PROBLEM #######:
>  dpkg ignores the provides: ..., fileutils from coreutils when deciding
> whether it's ok to remove fileutils.  The versioned deps are all for version
> numbers lower than coreutils' version number, so there shouldn't be a
> problem.  Unfortunately, there is:

That's because versioned provides aren't supported by dpkg - it's a
long-standing known wishlist (or bug, depending on how you look at it).
The packages that still have versioned dependencies on
(file|shell|text)utils are gradually being changed to depend on
coreutils.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]