Re: "Provides: foo" doesn't satisfy "Depends: foo"
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:42:00AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> So, if I've installed libgd1-noxpm, which "Provides: libgd1", at version
> 1.8.4-16, that satisfies analog's dependency on "libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-7)".
> Right?
Nope. dpkg doesn't handle versioned provides - a long-standing
deficiency, but quite difficult to fix for various reasons [1]. analog
needs to be rebuilt to explicitly depend on either of them, if
appropriate.
[1] ... he says, neatly glossing over the problem. :) As I recall, apt
had problems the last time there was an attempt to implement it in
dpkg.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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