On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Jrme Marant wrote: > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about an explanatory paragraph in the packaging manual, and a > > wishlist bug report against dpkg to allow more complex > > These 2 things would be great. > > Do you want me to fill a bug report or do you want to do it yourself? > > I guess that dpkg is currently using simple regexp for expressing > dependencies. Adding more complex dependencies may require > defining a small grammar...
Feel free to file the dpkg bug (since you were the one who found it) and I'll try to get some temporary explanation into the packaging manual (which I thought was now policy). Matt