Le Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 02:27:35AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... écrivait: > Raphael, > I was just finishing up the fake packages and noticed that you have > perl-base depend on perl-=version=-base | perl5-base. > > Why would you do that? Shouldn't just depending on perl5-base work? > That way, the same essential package can continue to be installed while > we go from 5.004->5.005->5.006->etc.
In fact it was not 'perl-=version=-base | perl5-base' but 'perl-5.004-base | perl5-base'. I did this because of the Debian policy, when we depend on a virtual package we should indicate "preferred_package_providing_virtual_package | virtual_package" <Just checking> Oh I see that I really wrote perl-=version=-base, that was not my intent. </Just checking> But that's not mandatory. So you can remove it safely. It would have been useful if we didn't have the perl fake package. Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
