Bug#761219: debian-policy: document versioned Provides
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, David Prévot wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:57:57PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > dpkg 1.17.11 and apt 1.0.7 recently implemented support for versioned
> > provides.
> […]
> > This clearly needs an update. No proposed wording yet, sorry.
>
> Here is a simple one, stripping away the incorrect restriction. The
> consideration about versioned virtual package may evolve with the dpkg
> implementation, so I don’t believe it is worth it to document it in the
> policy, at least not right now anyway.
Support for versioned provides is still too new: it is present only in
Jessie and unstable. This is a concern when dealing with backports.
I'd recommend we change the current text, but not by removing the
restriction on versioned provides. Instead, mention that it does not exist
anymore since Debian jessie (dpkg 1.17.11 and newer).
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