In <[🔎] 20090528153521.GA31559@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> was heard to say: >> Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before >> Squeeze) so that we can have versioned dependencies on virtual packages? > > Yes. It's been supposed to change in the future for at least ten >years. :-) Maybe this is a better discussion for debian-devel or the bug itself, but what the the technological issues in implementing this? It seems like it should be a fairly simple enhancement to the resolver with the caveat that only versioned Provides can satisfy a versioned dependency. (The alternative of "synthesizing" a version for non-versioned Provides seems like a recipe for breakage.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ Fun Fact: There is no lowest version of a package, you can always add '~' to the end of a package version to get a lower version.
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