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From: Erik Bernhardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: apt: apt-get | apt-cache fail to merge lists
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: normal
If a package has a line like
Provides: foo (=1.2.3)
in its control, apt fails to merge the lists. dpkg and the dh_* scripts dont
complain about this, infact the dh_* scripts complain if its just (1.2.3) saying
that the reference to foo has an 'implicit exact match on version number.'
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux journey 2.2.12 #13 Wed Sep 15 16:57:07 PDT 1999 i586
unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:45:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#46717: apt: apt-get | apt-cache fail to merge lists
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Erik Bernhardson wrote:
> If a package has a line like
>
> Provides: foo (=1.2.3)
> in its control, apt fails to merge the lists. dpkg and the dh_* scripts
> dont complain about this, infact the dh_* scripts complain if its just
> (1.2.3) saying that the reference to foo has an 'implicit exact match on
> version number.'
This is not valid syntax and is explicitly rejected to make sure we don't
have problems when we add real versioned provides. You must NOT put any
bracketed expression in a provides line.
dpkg it seems will parse that but will not actually do anything with it,
the result simply goes into the bitbucket.
Jason
