On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:54:01PM -0700, Nicos Panayides wrote: > Ok then. I wasn't too sure about it anyway. By the way since there are > several different specifications (1.2, 1.3, 1.4) for java2 vm (and their > base libraries), shouldn't there be some way to handle dependencies on > specifications? For instance i have a project that needs 1.4. Right now i > don't see any way to have that dependency. Maybe the java-virtual-machine > virtual package should have a specification field so we could say > something like depends: java-virtual-machine (>= 1.4).
This would be useful, but dpkg does not have this functionality (versioned virtual packages) yet. A versioned dependency on a virtual package will always fail to be met. > Maybe something similar for the base libraries. Ok there are no java2-vms > available for debian officially but hopefully someday there will be, and > not handling specification dependencies will cause some headaches to the > users. I would look at it the other way, where it is not a good use of our time to fine-tune a specification for something that we do not have (and may never be able to have). -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
