Bug#647053: Reverse dependencies of virtual package not handled correctly
I've hit the same problem when listing dependencies for package tomcat8, which depends on tomcat8-common, which depends on "default-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime,
libtomcat8-java" but java8-runtime-headless is not shown:
# apt-rdepends --state-follow=Installed --state-show=Installed tomcat8
tomcat8
Depends: tomcat8-common (>= 8.5.38-2)
...
tomcat8-common
Depends: libtomcat8-java (>= 8.5.38-2)
# apt-cache showpkg java8-runtime-headless
...
Reverse Provides:
openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u212-b01-1~deb9u1 (= )
openjdk-11-jre-headless 11.0.3+1-1~bpo9+1 (= )
openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u181-b13-2~deb9u1 (= )
default-jre-headless 2:1.8-58 (= )
openjdk-11-jre-headless 11.0.3+1-1 (= )
default-jre-headless 2:1.11-71 (= )
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With best regards,
Dmitry
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