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Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish



Hello Sven,

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:59:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Do you expect dak to reject the upload, or the provides simply to have
> > no effect?
> 
> Neither of those is true, see Policy §7.5.  Although this fails to
> mention that Provides can now be versioned, see bug #761219[1].

Okay.  It's not clear whether a /versioned/ Provides: virtual package
would still be ignored in favour of a real package of any version.  I've
added a note to that bug.

-- 
Sean Whitton


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