On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:03:14PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > ######## THE PROBLEM #######: > dpkg ignores the provides: ..., fileutils from coreutils when deciding > whether it's ok to remove fileutils. The versioned deps are all for version > numbers lower than coreutils' version number, so there shouldn't be a > problem. Unfortunately, there is:
That's because versioned provides aren't supported by dpkg - it's a long-standing known wishlist (or bug, depending on how you look at it). The packages that still have versioned dependencies on (file|shell|text)utils are gradually being changed to depend on coreutils. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
