On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:09:07AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:42:04AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Sven :-) We won a battle. > > > > > > > > But This does not solve the autobuilder problems, but let us just ignore > > > > them for now, since ocaml is already added to the override file for > > > > > those. > > > > > > What problem? > > > > The auto builders need to know, when presented with a virtual package, > > which package to choose or something such. They are not prepared to cope > > with virtual packages provided by only one real package, which is why a > > manual edited configuration files which maps the virtual packages to the > > real ones to choose is used. > > But since APT can now decide to install a package if it is the only one > provided by a virtual package, I guess they don't need to consider this > case and can let APT do the job, right?
Maybe, but not sure. I think the autobuilders have some extra way of handling virtual build dependencies, but i don't know for sure. > We definitely need versioned provides, I think. I guess embedding the api/abi in the virtual package name should be enough. Friendly, Sven Luther
