Anthony Towns wrote: > Versioned provides won't be available for a while (they completely break > apt 0.3, not sure if apt 0.4 supports them), so that'll break cdebconf, > and mean the only possible implementation of the `Debian Configuration > management specification' is debconf. And, again, it limits how well we > can manage to cope with old debs if old versions of the debconf protocol > ever get deprecated.
It's really no big deal, I can introduce a Provides: debconf-protocol-v3 if necessary. (Stupid versioned provides...) The current protocol is flexible enough that basically anything except its broad form can be changed w/o breaking things. The capb stuff is very useful here too. -- see shy jo
