Herbert Xu wrote: > I object. Until versioned provides work reliably, doing this prevents > any use of versioned dependencies on such packages which may come back > to haunt us.
If something needs to declare a versioned dependency, it need only use the package's real name in the dependency. There really arn't that many dependancies on libfoo-perl packages in debian, and the number of versioned dependencies is quite small. Raising the specter of versioned provides sure is a nice way to kill any forward progress at all, ain't it? -- see shy jo
