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

[Christian Marillat]

James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:

> 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).

Completely true. See bug 24934

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=24934#10

Christian