This one time, at band camp, Ian Zimmerman said: > Huh?? The Description seems to mean, translated into Debian speak, > exactly what I wrote. > > Look at it the other way: where, in the Description, does it say that the > dependency will change to postgresql-8.x in the future?
It says it's a virtual package that exists to depend on postgresql-<version>. That seems clear enough to me. But no biggy either way - it's not a Depends. > Stephen> It's also irrelevant, since the package doesn't Depend (capital > Stephen> D, as in policy and package meaning here, rather than > Stephen> colloquial) on it. > > Unfortunately some tools treat Recommends the same as Depends at the > point when the depending package is installed. It may be possible to > later uninstall the recommended package, but that hardly helps someone > who already has postgresql-8.x installed. This should just work. If it doesn't there's a problem. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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