On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:04:27PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:50:13 -0500, Justin Pryzby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can uses a Provides: in the control file (providing a non-virtual > > package). > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html > > > It is a little more complex than that > > The original package is named Qmail but its version is named > 1.03-zarge1, so all packages that depends on Qmail looks for Qmail >> > 1.03-zarge1. This is somewhat annoying because I want my package to be > named Qmail and have version number 1.03-patched. If I do this then > non of the packages that depends on qmail-1.03-zarge1 can install. > > So what I really want is some way of mapping the version number of the > old package to a new one. Writing > > Provides: qmail (1.03-zarge1) > > in the control file does not seam to do the trick I see. I suspect Provides: will not do what you want. Check out the equivs package:
Description: Circumvent Debian package dependencies I haven't used it, but this is what its for. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
