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Bug#193314: apt ignores the "Provides: "-tag while installing build-deps



Hi,

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > While trying to install the build-deps for fvwm:
> > 
> > # apt-get build-dep fvwm
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Build-Depends dependency for fvwm cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package libpng-dev can satisfy version requirements
> > 
> > but libpng12-dev provides libpng-dev:
> > # apt-cache show libpng12-dev|grep Provides:
> > Provides: libpng-dev, libpng12-0-dev
> > 
> > 
> > So this build-dependency can be satisfied, in contrast to what apt is reporting.
> 
> What version of fvwm are you trying to build?  The current unstable version
> (2.4.15-2) does not seem to have a (direct or indirect) build-dependency on
> libpng-dev, so I cannot reproduce this at all.

Sorry for that, I missed mentioning that I'm using the prerelease
fvwm 2.5 packages from http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian (actual
version is 2.5.6-1) which have a direct build-dependency against
libpng-dev:
Build-Depends: [...] libpng-dev, [...]

(http://people.debian.org/~sacha/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/fvwm_2.5.6-1.dsc)

I don't think that this is important for this bug, but it's important
for you to reproduce it, so please accept my apologies.

- Alexander

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