On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie: > > > I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > > deliberately. It looks like the packages I mentioned above are fixed in > > hamm so this only effects bo users and upgrading..
How does this affect upgrading from bo? I think, deity should support these upgrades in a user friendly manner. Otherwise, people will hate deity as they hate dselect from the first minute. > I suspect a self-referenced "Depends:" is always a bug. However, you also > reported a bug in the "ddd" package that "Provides:" itself. This type of > self-reference need not be a bug. > > For instance, take "unzip". The "unzip" and "unzip-crypt" (on non-US) > packages both provide the virtual package "unzip", so that other packages > can have a "Depends: unzip" (the virtual one), without having to know which > packages actually provide that functionality. Why has "unzip" to "Provide" itself? As "unzip" is a _real_ package, there should be no need for a "virtual" package. (Of course, "unzip-crypt" would have to Provide: unzip.) But note, that a package may "Conflict:" with something it provides: Package: sendmail Version: 8.8.5-1 Provides: mail-transport-agent Conflicts: mail-transport-agent, smail Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .