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Control: retitle -1 improve rendering of alternative solutions in {r,}dependsOn Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 05:43:13AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 3.0.3 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > $ apt-cache rdepends -i dnsmasq-base > dnsmasq-base > Reverse Depends: > comitup > dnsmasq-base-lua > neutron-dhcp-agent > dnsmasq-base-lua > lxc > dnsmasq-base-lua > libvirt-daemon-driver-network > dnsmasq-base-lua > golang-github-containernetworking-plugin-dnsname > dnsmasq-base-lua > dnsmasq > dnsmasq-base-lua > concordance-common > dnsmasq-base-lua > > This output is, of course, bogus: > > $ dpkg -s libvirt-daemon-driver-network | fgrep Depends > Depends: dnsmasq-base, iptables | nftables, libvirt-common (= > 11.3.0-3+deb13u1), libvirt-daemon (= 11.3.0-3+deb13u1), libvirt0 (= > 11.3.0-3+deb13u1), libc6 (>= 2.38), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= > 2.26.0) Thank you for your bug report. The output is correct. It shows that 1. libvirt-daemon-driver-network is a reverse depends 2. the reverse-dependency can also be satisfied by dnsmasq-base-lua (as it Provides: dnsmasq-base) While `apt-cache {r,}depends` are frozen, we are happy to make changes to the newer `apt {r,}depends` to improve visualization. I'd strongly encourage you to migrate to the newer versions, as they actually show whether a dependency is a Depends or a Conflicts, not to mention all the various other shapes like Replaces and Recommends. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
