Martin Buck writes:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > The package depends/recommends libreadline4. This version
> > will be removed from the archive in the near future.
> > Please change your build dependencies to
> > 
> >      libreadline5-dev | libreadline-dev
> 
> Is there a good reason why I should change the build dependencies to this
> instead of the simple "libreadline-dev" which I have at the moment? apcalc
> is very likely to build properly with any previous and future version of
> libreadline, so I don't understand why I should explicitly list
> libreadline5-dev.

yes, the buildd's cannot automatically choose a virtual
package. please look at the policy for details (do not depend on a
virtual package alone).


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