On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:02:34PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > -> That would require versioned dependencies on virtual packages (versioned > -> Provides:) to work, but they don't. You'll probably have to use > -> something like a high epoch instead. > > Pardon? Does that mean there's no possibility to provide one package bye > another one, for other packages' dependencies to work? hmmm :(
Not if other packages declare *versioned* dependencies on it. > And what do you mean 'high epoch'? Something like 'Version: 9:1.0.0-1'. The epoch forces that version number to compare higher than any version number with a lower epoch or no epoch. See policy section 4 ("Version numbering"). (BTW, I tried to honour your Mail-Followup-To: and cc you, but my ISP's mail server is blocked by yours, so I won't bother trying again.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]