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Re: Grouping dependencies



On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Jrme Marant wrote:
> Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > How about an explanatory paragraph in the packaging manual, and a
> > wishlist bug report against dpkg to allow more complex
> 
>   These 2 things would be great.
> 
>   Do you want me to fill a bug report or do you want to do it yourself?
> 
>   I guess that dpkg is currently using simple regexp for expressing
>   dependencies. Adding more complex dependencies may require
>   defining a small grammar...

Feel free to file the dpkg bug (since you were the one who found
it) and I'll try to get some temporary explanation into the
packaging manual (which I thought was now policy).

Matt



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