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Re: provides and dependencies



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> I don't think you can provide particular versions. Unless this has
> changed in dpkg recently. (It's one of the most wanted features.)

See bug#112131 for example. I'm suprised I couldn't find an older bug
for this, actually.

> > I will read up on this, but i think it is a bug in dpkg behavior.
> 
> I heard it was a bug in apt-get; it needs "A | B" as it can't
> select something itself to provide B. dpkg itself is fine.

apt should probably just select the highest-priority package if
multiple choices are available.

-- 
Robbe

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