On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apt should check dependencies of installed packages against their > respective dependencies and not against what is in the packages file.
Unfortunately this is not really reasonable. Adding the complexity of having the same version of a package be possibly different is just too much to deal with. All packages with the same version number must be identically equivilant, end of story. > For now, I bypass this problem by building a "myapt" package (I only had > to change one line in debian/rules for this) and installing this > instead of "apt". All you need to do is bump the version number to an NMU. > P.S.: If I have got a /etc/apt/sources.list file: Will it be > overwritten on first installation of apt? If you changed the package name then yeah it will. I really don't think this is something that can be considered an APT bug, there is no acceptable alternative. Jason
