Bug#916376: gfortran-8-* has bad provides

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Hi Matthias,

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 02:32:16AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> doesn't this approach of dropping the provides only defers the problem? You will
> see that again when cross building packages.  So it looks to me that you want to
> include in the multiarch id into these provides.

My approach certainly defers the problem. For a number of other tools,
what you propose is what happens indeed. I considered that option, but
figured that it was not worth the effort: Nobody uses the suffixed names
(as nothing provides them) and once the -for-host packages are there,
they can provide these packages.

On the other hand, these provides are wrong and they make diagnosing
installation failures unnecessarily hard. Therefore removing them looks
like an incremental step to me. As you point out, readding them later
will likely be needed.

> Please make sure that renaming the gfortran-mod-15 provides is coordinates with
> the people caring about gfortran (Debian Science, Alistair?).

I'm still hoping that there is will be no need to rename.

Helmut