On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
Daniel,
You might want to take a look at how fink currently handles Provides.
As I mentioned before, I had to create a new revision of fftw (2.1.5-6)
because the addition of "Provides: fftw" to both the fftw and fftw-mpi as
well as "Provides: fftw-shlibs" to both the fftw-shlibs and fftw-mpi-shlibs
packages broke the ability to upgrade from fftw to fftw-mpi. That is...
[snip]
Jack, there is a basic problem in using Provides with a -shlibs splitoff: in order to make sure that libraries and headers match up properly, we essentially always use a line of the form "Depends: foo-shlibs (=%v-%r)" in the splitoff containing headers. On the other hand, it is not possilble to provide versioning with Provides. (This is not just a shortcoming of fink; it isn't possible in dpkg.)
As a consequence, I wouldn't recommend using "Provides: foo-shlibs" under any circumstances.
-- Dave
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