On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:39:00PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:

> Anyway, why keep an empty package on all those architecture.
> Why not let perl-base provide libperl5.8 and kill libperl5.8 on those 
> architectures.
> Or have libperl5.8 always contain the actual shared library and have 
> perl-base depend on libperl5.8 (that would have to be essntial: yes) on 
> those architectures?

Because you can't have a versioned dependency on a virtual package.

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