On Jo, 10 apr 14, 21:24:38, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> writes: > >> Any idea why the following: > >> > >> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status > >> Status: install ok installed > >> > >> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends > >> Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, > >> libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl > >> (>= 5.815), libnet-inet6glue-perl > >> > >> $ dpkg -s libdigest-sha-perl|grep Status > >> dpkg-query: package 'libdigest-sha-perl' is not installed and no > >> information is available > > > > The perl package provides libdigest-sha-perl. > > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdigest-sha-perl > > So why is it also a separate package? It is clear I am not > understanding something here.
Not sure what you're looking for, but let me try to explain: debmirror Depends: libdigest-sha-perl. From the output above it seems that on your system the dependency is satisfied by the Provides: libdigest-sha-perl of package perl, so there is no reason to have the real package libdigest-sha-perl installed. dpkg can't tell anything about the libdigest-sha-perl package because it's not installed on your system. Hope this explains, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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