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

[James Andrewartha]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Loïc Minier wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > Which bad practice ?
> 
>  Introducing virtual packages of your choice by matters of Provides:
>  this breaks versionned dependencies in the Debian archive as your
>  packages (with the virutal provide) always satisfy the dependency, even
>  if the version doesn't match.

No, the problem is dpkg doesn't support versioned Provides: and so the 
dependency can never be satisfied even if the version is ok (which it is, 
not that I think it should be versioned in this case).

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