Bug#273847: Bug#274747: type-handling: dependency on dpkg-dev is not required for provides

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:41:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> How can you express
> 
>   Recommends: grub | not+i386
> 
> in _binary-all_ packages without the virtual provides?

You're right, looks like there's a limitation here.  I'll leave this bug open
to see if someone can come up with another solution.

In your particular problem: when grub is not present, a Recommends on grub
has no effect, so it's safe to recommend it.  OTOH, grub2 will be multi-cpu
so you might want to have it as a fallback option, like:

  Recommends: grub | grub2

> An example is education-common (although it might be solved by removing 
> the recommends in this specific case).

I recall you sent a bug report to grub-splashimages about it.  I'm adding
CC to the maintainer.

Luis, could you make it a Recommends on grub | grub2 ?

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