well this isn't 100% true. I made fink do this in the past.
This is what I did
1) use fink to get the list of depends including version and revision.
2) in the fink engine before the fetch, do an apt-get install on a versioned version, if an error then continue, else set to installed and continue.
when I was working on it (this was before my shlibs branch) the only problems I had was the last part, since I was running apt-get up of turn. But now that I'm wiser if I would have use apt-get download only option, then skipped to the dpkg -i step in fink engine I bet it would have worked flawlessly.
so the description is true but the implementation isn't that difficult. and using the download only option in apt-get will fix the problem in your 2nd step/requirement.
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On 6-Sep-04, at 5:31 PM, Rob Braun wrote:
1) Don't break what currently works. If a package can't be fetched from apt-get, then fall back to building from scratch. Also as a result of this requirement, fink's dependency engine must be used instead of apt-get's. Fink also must perform all package installations instead of apt-get.
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