[Python-modules-team] Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Thu Jul 5 11:10:18 UTC 2012


* Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert at wgdd.de>, 2012-07-04, 22:19:
>>python-avogadro is the only package in the archive that depends on 
>>python2.7-qt4. I think it makes more sense to fix it there than in 
>>python-qt4 and depend on a bug in poilcy, but since that's what it 
>>says, I'll fix it in python-qt4 if you prefer.
>I would prefer if you re-add the Provides field in python-qt4.

While I'm not a fan of python:Provides, and I agree that python-avogadro 
should stop depending on python2.X-foo packages, removing virtual 
packages at this point of release cycle is not really reasonable, 
specially when reverse-dependencies still exist. Scott, can you add them 
back?

-- 
Jakub Wilk





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