Re: Provides field broken in unstable

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

b.greiner@t-online.de (Benjamin Greiner) wrote:
>I just ran into what seems to be broken implementation of the Provides:
>field in apt/dpkg (from unstable).
[...]
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libkmid-alsa: Depends: libarts (>= 4:2.2-cvs20010512-1)

Nope, versioned provides have never worked, I'm afraid. An attempt was
made to implement them in dpkg some time back, but it broke apt; I don't
know if another attempt will be made in the future.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]