Re: APT has been fixed

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:09:07AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:42:04AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > > > Thanks Sven :-) We won a battle. 
> > > > 
> > > > But This does not solve the autobuilder problems, but let us just ignore
> > > > them for now, since ocaml is already added to the override file for
> 
> > > > those.
> > > 
> > > What problem?
> > 
> > The auto builders need to know, when presented with a virtual package,
> > which package to choose or something such. They are not prepared to cope
> > with virtual packages provided by only one real package, which is why a
> > manual edited configuration files which maps the virtual packages to the
> > real ones to choose is used.
> 
> But since APT can now decide to install a package if it is the only one
> provided by a virtual package, I guess they don't need to consider this
> case and can let APT do the job, right?

Maybe, but not sure. I think the autobuilders have some extra way of
handling virtual build dependencies, but i don't know for sure.

> We definitely need versioned provides, I think.

I guess embedding the api/abi in the virtual package name should be
enough.

Friendly,

Sven Luther