Bug#142298:
>>>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:25:45 -0600 (MDT), Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> said:
>> To the apt people: Could it be that it sees it's a versioned
>> depends and it doesn't notice that a versioned xemacs21-nomule is
>> about to be installed and just grabs the first in the list?
Jason> Perhaps, it is hard to tell without a status file/etc
Jason> This is a really long list of choices, I think you should
Jason> probably have a provides instead, that is more appropriate for
Jason> this.
This troubles me. It really should depend on the packages built at
the same time. And that'd break being able to do "apt-get update
xemacs21" and have it actually update the packages (rather than just
the xemacs21 package which would be fulfilled by an older package),
unless I did something ugly like have each xemacs21 program package
provide "xemacs-21.4.6-<debianversion>-program" and have the xemacs21
package Depend on that.
Or are you saying I should just have each program package "Provides:
xemacs21". I can't remember the reason now, but there was/is a good
reason to have a meta package. Hrm.... Oh wait. It was the dpkg
problem with looped provide depends. Does this bug still exist in
dpkg?
Jim
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