Re: Policy: java1-runtime

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Friday 15 August 2003 11:34, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> > Surely this says that having explicit runtime-? virtual packages is the
> > wrong way to go.  What is needed is that the virtual package has a
> > version and then it can be compared in the normal way.
>
> Yes, but unfortunately dpkg does not support versioned Provides: (see
> #112131), so we can't do it this way. :-(
>
> Stefan

In which case fixing dpkg strikes me as far better than adding yet more
byzantine workarounds.

Perhaps we need to speak to the author of dpkg, and explain the 
problems that we have and see it they can accellarate the fixing of
this bug.

David