On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:11:00PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:39:51AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >> PEP 345 is the PEP for the new metadata format, replacing PEP 314. I > >> have upgraded it, using Tres's work from last year, and the next step > >> is to add the context marker presented in PEP 390. > >> > >> I have also updated PEP 386 to link it to PEP 345. > > [...] > >> Please comment! > > > > In PEP 345 the Provides-Dist field mentions that when you use a > > virtual distribution you automatically conflict with other > > distributions providing this virtual dist. The next field, > > Obsoletes-Dist, explicitly says it's to conflict with another dist. I > > guess you can obsolte a dist without providing it, but when would this > > be used? Basically I don't fully understand the intended manings and > > interactions of Provides-Dist and Obsoletes-Dist. > > Obsoletes is normally used (as with dpkg / rpm) to cope with changes in > distribution (package) names.
But in dpkg you can have multiple packages installed with the same Provides as long as they don't mention each other in the Conflicts header. Floris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
