Re: APT has been fixed

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:


> > 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.

I guess so.
 
> > We definitely need versioned provides, I think.
> 
> I guess embedding the api/abi in the virtual package name should be
> enough.

For us, yes.

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Jérôme Marant