Bug#180316: dpkg: won't remove fileutils even though coreutils provides fileutils
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:52:30PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> That's because versioned provides aren't supported by dpkg
I suppose treating the provides as providing version x, where x is the
version of the package with the provides line, could cause problems. :(
> - it's a
> long-standing known wishlist (or bug, depending on how you look at it).
I read through the open bugs list for dpkg, but I didn't see anything about
this problem. The list was so long that at one point I realized I had
forgotten what I was looking for, so I might have missed it...
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