Package: srcinst
Version: 0.8.5
Followup-For: Bug #379783
Hello,
It appears that apt-get or aptitude can give some useful information
about virtual packages which srcinst could use.
# LANG=C aptitude show libcairo-dev
No current or candidate version found for libcairo-dev
Package: libcairo-dev
State: not a real package
Provided by: libcairo2-dev
# [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo ok!
ok!
# LANG=C apt-cache showpkg libcairo-dev
Package: libcairo-dev
Versions:
Reverse Depends:
libcairo2-dev,libcairo-dev
Dependencies:
Provides:
Reverse Provides:
libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1
# [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo ok!
ok!
... as a bonus, they don't generate an error if the package is virtual
;-)
The bad news is that either srcinst will depend on apt{,itude} or it
will recomend one of them and will take care not to call them, if not
installed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages srcinst depends on:
ii apt 0.6.46 Advanced front-end for dpkg
hi build-essential 11.3 informational list of build-essent
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library
srcinst recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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