Bug#98679: apt: Could automatically select only package providinag a virtual pkg

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I just did "apt-get build-dep python-imaging" to get all the build
dependencies in order for one of my packages. Apt showed the following
message:

Package libjpegg-dev is a virtual package provided by:
  libjpeg62-dev 6b-1.3
You should explicitly select one to install.

In the case that only one package provides a virtual package, it could
be possible to select this package automatically.

   Simon

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux phobos 2.2.19pre8 #1 Wed Feb 7 14:09:34 CET 2001 i486

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.1.3-18    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library