Bug#681136: Should libavcodec-extra-53 Provides: libavcodec53? [Was: Re: Bug#681136: libavcodec-extra-53: Cannot install libavcodec-extra-53 without losing kde]

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 12.07.2012 11:15, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> That would make 'libavcodec53' a "virtual" package, which AFAIUI would
> break versioned dependencies as dpkg does not support "versioned
> provides".

This doesn't sound like a problem as long as both binary packages are 
built from the same sources, e.g. the gnuplot package family does the 
same (gnuplot-qt Provides: gnuplot-x11 Provides: gnuplot-nox).

  - Fabian