Hello, I just ran into what seems to be broken implementation of the Provides: field in apt/dpkg (from unstable).
I have selfmade CVS KDE packages installed, all with a version tag 2.2-cvs20010512-1, let's call it vcvs for short. Among those are: libkmid vcvs, which depends on libarts (>= vcvs); libarts-alsa vcvs, which provides libarts. The problem is that, as you know, apt-get won't do anything if any broken dependencies are around. Now, apt-get believes that: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libkmid-alsa: Depends: libarts (>= 4:2.2-cvs20010512-1) It doesn't give any of the "but it's not going to be installed" or "wrong version installed" messages, just this, which looks like handling of Provides: is broken. Now, is that really the case or have I run into a bug somehow related to version management? Has anyone else noticed such behavior? <bg>
