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Re: libxrender1 dependency



On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:59:56PM +0200, Emil wrote:
> Is this normal: depends on xlibs >> 4.1.0 and conflicts
> with xlibs << 4.3.0 ?
> 
> Package: libxrender1
> Version: 0.8.3-7
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> Conflicts: xlibs (<< 4.3.0)

Yes.  The only way to satisfy this package's dependency is to install
libx11-6.

The package dependencies are calculated by dpkg-shlibdeps, not
hand-coded into the package metadata, in which case I agree they would
not make very much sense.

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