Bug#233867: xlibs: list of packages that depend on xlib6g

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leo@hiper.com.br> wrote
[...]
> FWIW, The following packages, present on my system and installable
> from stable, still require xlib6g, and will either have to be
> removed or will stall an xlibs upgrade:
[..]
> navigator/communicator (aka moz 4.77) and it's dependencies
[...]
> One question though, considering that xlibs 4.3 claim to "Replace:"
> xlib6g, besides conflicting with it, why can't it simply "Provide:"
> xlib6g and end this mess?
[...]

Hello,
It would not help; the[1] dependencies are versioned, ie.
"Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4)" instead of "Depends: xlib6g" and a
versioned dependency cannot be satisfied with a provides.
                  cu andreas
[1] I have not gone through the whole list, but I think all of them
are.
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