Hello! I have an additional question to an old mailing list discussion:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/04/msg00259.html It was about dependency problems just due to the fact, that packages are (unnecessarily) named different: There are many KDE backports out there, some of them depends on libqt3-mt, some of them on libqt3c102-mt. So it is difficult (?) to build a package of an KDE application which will work with both of these different backports: >> Can't you make your package depend on kdelibs4, and use the implicit >> kdelibs4->libqt3* dependency ? > >No. The package dependencies are generated at build time against >whatever the package links to, plus manually set dependencies. So for >kdelibs4 and libqt3c102-mt they are automatically set up. Now i noticed, that i can resolve the problem by manually correct the Depends field like that: before: Depends: ..., libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.1.2), ... after: Depends: ..., libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.1.2) | libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.1.2), ... That works, but is there an better way to achieve that? Henning