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

Loïc Minier lool at dooz.org
Sun Aug 3 15:24:14 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 03, 2008, James Andrewartha wrote:
> 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).

 Right, but the end result is that it prevents Debian from using
 versionned dependencies if debian-multimedia.org's packages use virtual
 provides.

-- 
Loïc Minier





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