On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:18:23PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > We need not change anything now, just use a more meaningful tag than
> > "" next time we want to bump.
> I think this makes most sense. (although it does require renaming
> libjack-dev to libjack-jackd1-dev and making it Provide: libjack-dev).
Is that required now? I don't think so. Policy 7.5:
--- policy ---
If there are both concrete and virtual packages of the same name, then
the dependency may be satisfied (or the conflict caused) by either the
concrete package with the name in question or any other concrete
package which provides the virtual package with the name in question.
This is so that, for example, supposing we have
Package: foo
Depends: bar
and someone else releases an enhanced version of the `bar' package
they can say:
Package: bar-plus
Provides: bar
and the `bar-plus' package will now also satisfy the dependency for
the `foo' package.
--- end of policy ---
And we still have versioned build dependencies. Quoting policy-7.5
again:
--- policy ---
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.
--- end of policy ---
While this would still cause trouble with the few packages you've
mentioned (I'm going to fix calf in a second) for those who have
installed libjack-jackd2-dev, it won't do any harm on the buildds.
So long story short: it seems the only change reguired right now is the
updated jackd2 package with libjack-jackd2-dev "Provides: libjack-dev".
And that's already built and waiting for an upload on my system. Just
give me the "OK" in case you agree. ;)
Cheerio
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