severity 859912 normal
thanks
Hi,
thanks for your report.
On 04/09/17 10:12, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Your package has a 'Provides' for locales and locales-all but without
> actually providing any of the functionality of these packages.
yes, this is the purpose of the package (see rational in the manpage).
> This makes many packages build-depending on either of those FTBFS. Here is a
> random example from bgoffice-computer-terms:
given that apt handels this properly, I don't think this is a problem:
* apt install locales or apt install locales-all will always install
the actual packages, not the one providing it.
* packages declaring a depends or build-depends against
locales/locales-all, will get locales/locales-all pulled in,
not open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8
therefore a user only gets the open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8
package if s/he actually installs it on purpose, which is fine.
Regards,
Daniel
