Bug#493588: gnome: dependency on gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg shouldn't be versioned

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Sun Aug 3 14:23:28 UTC 2008


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.

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Loïc Minier






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