Re: Computing d/control "Provides:" line

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> writes:

>   I would like to know if there is an easy way to fill in the
> "Provides: " line in a d/control file ?
>
>   Here is the situation, one of my package is activiz.net a C# binding
> to a C++ library VTK. VTK 5.8 was uploaded to unstable today. I need
> therefore to transition from activiz.net 5.6 to activiz.net 5.8 to
> indicate the SOVERSION change.
>
>   Instead of manually editing the d/control file I was wondering if I
> could detect this case and update the control file during package
> generation time.

What exactly would you want to put in the Provides field in this case?

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