Re: renaming a package
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:04:51AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:24:16AM -0400, christophe barb? wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:04:07PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> > > > So in the control file, I've specified that libglut3 Conflicts and Replaces
> > > > glutg3 for versions <= 3.7-15, and created a glutg3 package with no content,
> > >
> > > I am not sure but isn't it better to use 'Provides: glutg3' instead of
> > > providing a package glutg3 with no content.
> >
> > Most dependencies on glutg3 are versioned, and a Provides: can't satisfy
> > versioned dependencies.
>
> Are there any plans to fix dpkg so it finally supports versioned
> provides ?
AFAIK, there is a partial patch in dpkg CVS. APT needs to be modified
in order to handle versioned provides as well.
Cheers,
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Jérôme Marant
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