[Aptitude-devel] Bug#671486: aptitude: does not select prefered alternative on alternative replacement

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-03-17 20:45 To Yann Dirson:
>IMO and according to policy [1], there's nothing special about the first
>alternative.
>
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

I mean specifically this sentence:

  In such a case, that part of the dependency can be satisfied by any
  one of the alternative packages.

and the lack of mention of preference of some alternative over the
others in that section.

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>