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

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:05:04PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > What's wrong with a package haing the provides type-handling currently 
> > has? This might be a different package than the one shipping the 
> > type-handling script, but it seems like a technically simple way to 
> > solve some problems.
> 
> Unfortunately virtual provides bring trouble with auto-builders, so they're
> deprecated.  I'm trying to provide a solution that works for everyone by using
> the script instead.
> 
> > > 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
> > 
> > Besides that it wouldn't solve the general problem, grub2 is according 
> > to debian/control currently only targeted at i386 and powerpc.
> 
> As I said before, when grub (or grub2) is not present, a Recommends on grub
> (or grub2) has no effect so it's safe to use it.  It also archieves
> pro-active compatibility when grub2 is ported to more cpus (which it will).
> 

Per another bug report I was going to just sugest for grub. I can just
now suggest grub/grub2.

Robert, which one should I use?

	Luis

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