On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > ... if apt would try to solve a dependency on the virtual package > default-mta provided by exim4 and exim5 it would ... choose to install > exim4 in the described case ...
In case of a virtual default-mta package, the existence of a transitional package (exim did not have one in Etch) could prevent a package from an older release to be installed, but it would still use an old default and thus install a package that might be removed during the next release cycle. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
