Bug#233867: "Provides: xlib6g" needed in 4.3.0
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:16:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:35:41PM +0200, Martin-???ric Racine wrote:
> > I have an old Netscape 4.77 dating back from Potato that I absolutely
> >
> > Alternately, if some existing 4.3.0 packages are supposed to
> > "Provides: xlib6g, libxaw6" this might work. If this is possible,
> I am sorry, but the xlib6g package name is was deprecated in the woody
> release and will be entirely absent in sarge.
>
> You may be able to rectify your problem, however, by using the "equivs"
Well, the problem is: as long as you Conflict: xlib6g
in xlibs, nobody will be able to install any package
that even just Provides: xlib6g.
That's why the way you suggest just simply does not
work.
(And yes, I tried it, I did build my own fake-xlib6g
with Provides: xlib6g).
That was my reason for 233818.
There is no other chance currently, than repackage any
package that depends on xlib6g currently with modified
control file.
The question is: Since the last xlib6g packages are
empty packages anyways... do you really need to
Conflict: it?
regards,
Mario
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