On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:30:31 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > I haven't tried this yet, but it appears that dpkg added versioned > > support for virtual packages to unstable last August > Thanks, this is very interesting. That means we could stop the > proliferation of java<n>-runtime virtual packages and replace them with > java-runtime (>= n). I theory yes (in the Perl Group we're also waiting for it), in practice I believe not all parts of the archive infrastructure are ready yet. As pointers: dose3/wanna-build https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00246.html #786671 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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