On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:37:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx: > > > > : > > Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > > Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0) > > Provides: libgl1 > > : > > > > This looks weird to me. How can it replace and conflict with > > its own virtual package name? > There is nothing wrong with that, packages providing > mail-transport-agent are in the same situation. Ack. For reference: that's documented in Debian Policy, 7.5., last paragraph. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Cranberries: Put Me Down
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