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

Christian Marillat marillat at debian.org
Sun Aug 3 13:16:27 UTC 2008


Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, James Andrewartha wrote:
>> The dependency on gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg being versioned prevents the
>> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-full package from debian-multimedia.org from
>> satisfying it as dpkg doesn't do versioned Provides:. Is there any need
>> for the dependency to be versioned?
>
>  Wow, that's really a bad practice from debian-multimedia.org (Cc:ing
>  d-m.org maintainer): if we ever need versionned dependencies on our
>  pure Debian packages, then the addition of this repository breaks it
>  all.

Which bad practice ?

Christian






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