Hi! On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 21:57:57 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > dpkg 1.17.11 and apt 1.0.7 recently implemented support for versioned > provides. From the dpkg changelog: > > * Add versioned Provides support: > - Add a new dpkg --assert-versioned-provides command. > - Packages can provide a specific version, “virtual (= 1.0)” which will > be honored, previously it would just be accepted when parsing. > - Non-versioned virtual packages will not satisfy versioned dependencies. > - Versioned virtual packages will satisfy non-versioned dependencies.
Just a quick note here, I noticed several days ago that I missed updating the perl code to also handle versioned Provides (so dpkg-checkbuilddeps will not work on those yet). I've got this fixed locally pending a bit more testing, but it will make it into 1.17.14, to be released RSN (i.e. days). Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
