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Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client



On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:00:42PM -0500, David B Harris wrote:
> On Sat,  8 Feb 2003 17:14:01 -0700 (MST)
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> >   Package: myserverbundle
> >   Architecture: all
> >   Section: admin
> >   Priority: optional
> >   Depends: rsh-client
> >   Description: My server package bundle
> 
> When you want to Depends: on a virtual package, you must also have an
> alternate dependency, on a *real* package.
> 
> In this particular case, you want:
> 
> Depends: rsh-client | ssh

Preferred alternatives for virtual packages should come first, not
second. As somebody else said, though, this is probably a false
positive.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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