severity 300133 wishlist
tags 300133 wontfix
thanks
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:50:40PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Package: type-handling
> Version: 0.2.6
> Severity: important
>
>
> I have discovered that type-handling doesn't have any Provides: line
> anymore. This is a big regression. Don't you think having
> Build-Depends: libasound2-dev |??not+linux
> kicks ass?
I'm sorry. As I said before, this feature brings too much trouble for me as
it doesn't work properly (some utils, like sbuild, fail to parse virtual
dependencies at all).
The only problem I see with using type-handling as a script for control file
generation is that it doesn't work with Depends: on binary-indep packages.
This is, however, simply a dessign bug in dpkg, and not so hard to fix.
If you (or anyone) either:
- Fix sbuild and whatever is unable to parse virtual provides properly.
- Discuss this problem with the dpkg maintainers and conclude that the
proposed change cannot be implemented.
I'll bring back the provides.
> The currently proposed solution ends up in overly long Build-Depends
> lines, and is much more fragile. In short, it's total crap.
This will be addressed in the long-term, by merging type-handling functionality
in dpkg itself. I don't expect this to happen anytime soon, though.
I'm leaving this bug open as a reminder that some work needs to be done.
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