On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 19:14 -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Adam> That's the description in the package's control file; dpkg is
> Adam> simply displaying it:
>
> The problem is that I cannot report a bug against gcc; reportbug says
> "gcc is a dependency package, which real package do you mean?"
> So it must really be flagged as an "unreal" package somewhere.
Yes, in *reportbug*, which has done so for a few years now:
reportbug (1.99.32) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* Add support for "dependency packages" (i.e. packages that only exist
to provide dependencies that vary by platform, like gcc-defaults).
Note that this support is in addition to the existing virtual
package
support. (Closes: #148602)
ATM gcc-defaults is the only such package I know about; please let
me
know any others by filing a wishlist bug.
[...]
-- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 16:33:21 -0500
debianbts.py defines:
# Dependency packages
'deppkgs' : ('gcc', 'g++', 'cpp', 'gcj', 'gpc', 'gobjc',
'chill', 'gij', 'g77', 'python', 'python-base',
'x-window-system-core', 'x-window-system'),
which is then used in the main reportbug script:
# Packages that only exist to do weird dependency things
deppkgs = sysinfo.get('deppkgs')
if pkgavail and deppkgs:
if installed and package in deppkgs:
One could argue about whether that should be the case, but it's
definitely not a dpkg bug.
Regards,
Adam
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