Bug#493588: gnome: dependency on gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg shouldn't be versioned
James Andrewartha
trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Aug 3 14:45:32 UTC 2008
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > Which bad practice ?
>
> Introducing virtual packages of your choice by matters of Provides:
> this breaks versionned dependencies in the Debian archive as your
> packages (with the virutal provide) always satisfy the dependency, even
> if the version doesn't match.
No, the problem is dpkg doesn't support versioned Provides: and so the
dependency can never be satisfied even if the version is ok (which it is,
not that I think it should be versioned in this case).
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