On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 19:33:25 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Quoting David Kalnischkies (2015-04-18 17:24:45) > > What about a package blub2:i386 which Provides: bar ? Isn't that > > providing bar:i386 as well, because that is what bar stands for… ? > > On the other hand blub2:amd64 which 'Provides: bar' isn't providing > > bar:i386 (but bar:amd64), which was the topic of a previous mail [0] > > from me to the list which while not generating a response, at least > > dpkg seems to agree with me now on that one (now, future unknown, the > > associated bugs are still open in dpkg and apt). > > The deb-control(5) man page in dpkg git says that all Provides: are implicitly > :any if no architecture qualifier is explicitly given: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/man/deb-control.5#n264
That's just incorrect, I might have read Replaces: where there was Provides: there, I'll fix the man page today, sorry for making this more confusing than necessary. :) Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
