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Re: priorities between virtual packages ...



On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Sven Luther wrote:

> BTW, it would be nice to have the short description shown in addition to
> the package name and version.
> 
> Matthias Urlich suggested to me that a priority field or something such
> in the .dsc file could solve my problem. I am ready to implement this

This is already done, but only for dependencies that are resolved
automatically. The command line has to specify a real package if there are
mutliple choices, that can't go away.

> Also, i may be willing to look at the versioned virtual depends while i
> am at it also. Is there any material already available or a hint at a

That needs to be implemented by dpkg first..

Jason



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