Re: Bug#46717: apt: apt-get | apt-cache fail to merge lists
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Erik Bernhardson wrote:
> If a package has a line like
>
> Provides: foo (=1.2.3)
> in its control, apt fails to merge the lists. dpkg and the dh_* scripts
> dont complain about this, infact the dh_* scripts complain if its just
> (1.2.3) saying that the reference to foo has an 'implicit exact match on
> version number.'
This is not valid syntax and is explicitly rejected to make sure we don't
have problems when we add real versioned provides. You must NOT put any
bracketed expression in a provides line.
dpkg it seems will parse that but will not actually do anything with it,
the result simply goes into the bitbucket.
Jason
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