2015-06-25 16:11 GMT+02:00 Esa Peuha <esa.pe...@gmail.com>: > I think that careful reading of > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual > will be the best way to understand the situation here, but the most > important thing is that virtual packages can't have version numbers. > Therefore the line "Provides: php-math-biginteger (= 1.0.2+phpseclib)" > is broken, and currently appears to be ignored completely (but if the > syntax checking of the control file is ever made any stricter, it could > cause the package to be rejected). However, fixing it wouldn't help, > because php-horde-mapi depends on php-math-biginteger with version > constraints, so no virtual package can satisfy that dependency.
At lease dpkg >= 1.17.11 and apt >= 1.0.7 support versioned provides. Regards -- Mathieu Parent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
