-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello Klaus,
Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.ch> wrote: > firs, please do cc to me as I have not subscribed this list. Done :) > But now it is not possible to deinstall libasound2 (well, it is and > everything except the package management work well without libasound2) > so it is not possible to use this package. The reason seams to be that > every package has a versioned dependency for libasound2 which seems not > to be working with provides. Yes. From Debian Policy 7.5 <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual>: | If a relationship field has a version number attached, only real | packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is | satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a conflict or | breakage). In other words, if a version number is specified, this is a | request to ignore all Provides for that package name and consider only | real packages. The package manager will assume that a package | providing that virtual package is not of the "right" version. A | Provides field may not contain version numbers, and the version number | of the concrete package which provides a particular virtual package | will not be considered when considering a dependency on or conflict | with the virtual package name. > Is there any way to have liboss4-salsa-asound2 installed on debian? And > is there any way to overwrite the versioned dependencies? If it wasn't for the Conflicts: statement in liboss4-salsa-asound2, you could create a ‘real’ package libasound2 with a sufficiently high version number using equivs. Then, you could adapt the control statements of liboss4-salsa-asound2 to remove the Conflicts: statement (doable, especially if you run stable and seldomly face upgrades). You could also try asking all the maintainers of the packages depending on libasound2 to please use something like | Depends: libasound2 (>= a.b) | liboss4-salsa-asound2 (>= c.d) However, I doubt that this is a viable approach, since OSS is rather deprecated on Linux (maybe the kFreeBSD folks would like such a scheme, though) and there are _many_ packages which just depend on libasound2. But, on the other hand, you could argue that some packages already do this, for example, java-package, gimp or libao4 (check with apt-cache rdepends libasound2). Best regards, Claudius - -- A board is the planck unit of boredom. http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQLh/PAAoJEMCBEuXXLNukMkkP+wdNwdhgPwAZ4VO5IH0bL+XI jM/qe7nhpHta2dNJst4SY8KWO7X1UWB5hH99R6OvWHW1SOuDg7lTNf9iS/IAdFHa lVPWfuDFFQ3OZhL2lCSMAIiSbkJ74C5bZX1E8hymIJ9hGUgfyGx/GmyeFonik9By NZSD913KAK/KP2RdArI/PTWFwMXNm1S2xfk3ZO8v7XuySzpweRsicCYj4BXZfhQW 9Yp5HxuxMyZ/2XYRc0HC30b/Lw4L7h7bjnKoD6xNlQ8JsGj5R/yx8ZUfn6YogALD Mh7JX5CiUtY21GdIPlh5R1CcpC2YLj9750koZ25fdPfrn39jGz+FHD/fxadHIAFF NOC5GSaINLjULjWi89k4jXBGZgNt0elvoZasuD7ALST58hBEVSqylEgEVpTsnlVD WoST6a1UY+j+px+qYRJt3RXfyK3Co/tTEwI4KuRwAc0KNMmoOrtkTMV9UGZxkW65 XktZ1AgXsN/tITi2P+PIOuBlPvbWNWPWSBEa9pEiatLstbO/7NUYf/udyRxalQpl 5yW/ZUMlLDlr9WWSscCIaX3RhrXaFp/r7QgiNhX3EN0eKUXGVkxFyaF4FWs88fxJ ah+cgedGCvvTB8QkShgdqwvIzcS5mYCC9pGcTAL5HYu8vOmdB6MPi8PEiolK8GY3 y9jiZJFaGx57uzBk7x/d =5oBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
