Why new package name libsasl2-2

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Tue Oct 17 11:42:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I was thinking about this as a possibility.  However, if we create a
> dummy package, then you end up with one empty package which doesn't do
> anything (hence "dummy" package).  I think a better route is to use
> Provides.  I think the dummy package approach is better reserved for

Just make sure you do not need versioned relationships.  You cannot do
versioned dependencies/conflicts on "provided" packages (in fact, if you do,
they always fail to match).

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