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i have a question regarding one of the packages i'm co-maintaining ("puredata", a graphical realtime computer music language). when "puredata" was packaged first (~1999), this was done under the name of "pd". later it has been re-named to "puredata", which in turn "Provides: pd", with "pd" being a virtual package for the "language/environment". this is starting to become useful now, as there are plans to package another implementation of the engine, which would also "Provide: pd". recently, the package has been split into a number of binary packages, e.g. the language interpreter can now be installed separately from its editor. the "puredata" binary package is now a meta-package depending on its components. after the split, both the "puredata-core" package (the interpreter) and "puredata" (the meta package, that also "Depends: puredata-core"), have now a "Provides: pd" clause in debian/control i'm a bit unsure, what the best practice for the "Provides:" clause would be in such a case. somehow, having 2 (interdependent) packages provide the same virtual package seems wrong to me. there is also a bug-report[652383], that _might_ be related to the double "Provides:" line, though i was unable to reproduce the reported bug on my machine. any thoughts on this? fgmasdr IOhannes [652383] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652383 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8LK9gACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvTRQwCfTqd4lp0BtPtHpQDrReP5kowL BHoAn1LhGGDhBGoNHez+BDI1bifxTcGZ =/57X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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