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Bug#473247: marked as done (When trying to satisfy a dependency on a virtual package, prefer the providing package with the higher priority)

Your message dated Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:14:34 +0100
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and subject line Close: When trying to satisfy a dependency on a virtual package, prefer the providing package with the higher priority
has caused the Debian Bug report #473247,
regarding When trying to satisfy a dependency on a virtual package, prefer the providing package with the higher priority
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: wishlist

When Package a depends on a virtual package B which is provided by the packages
X (Priority: optional) and Y (Priority: standard), apt should install the package Y.

Because AFAIK, apt currently installs the package with the "smaller" name (i.e.
A instead of B).

Preferring the package with higher priority means in many cases that the number
of its dependencies is lower than the number of dependencies of the other package.
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notfound 473247 0.7.11
thanks

The usage of pkgPrioSortList in depcache.cc MarkInstall suggests
that this is already implemented and a quick look at 'bzr blame'
says that it is there for quiet a while (since revision 615) so
without further ado lets close that and never talk about it again. ;)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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