Am 06.02.2008 um 13:27 schrieb Wilfried Klaebe: > Am Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:55:34AM -0800 schrieb Daniel Burrows: >> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:25:40AM +0100, Wilfried Klaebe <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> > Currently, the new version of some to-be-upgraded package (gdk-imlib11 >> > 1.9.15-6) depends on libgif4 (>= 4.1.6). The only available version of >> > libgif4 (4.1.6-2) provides, replaces and conflicts with libungif4g. >> > >> > aptitude now marks all packages as broken that depend on libgif4: >> > >> > Some dependencies of gfontview are not satisfied: >> > * gfontview depends on libungif4g (>= 4.1.4) (provided by libgif4 4.1.6-2) >> >> That's a bad message: versioned depends can't be satisfied through a >> provides. > > And how could this be solved, then? > > Maybe introduce a versioned "Provides:" that can satisfy a versioned > "Depends:"?
That would be very good, but it has to be done in dpkg first; see http://bugs.debian.org/24934 and friends. > The current situation is not OK, at least. Definitely it is not OK. I've put in up on debian-release, and I think the right solution would be to have a dummy package libungif4g depending on libgif4. See the thread starting on http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/19319. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
