Debian Bug report logs - #7182
Pre-Depends: + Provides: don't work

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From: Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Pre-Depends: + Provides: don't work

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 11:30:44 +0100 (MET)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.7

If a package pre-depends on a virtual package provided by another package
(in this case, bash, libdl1, and ldso), dselect doesn't notice this.

Since it doesn't notice this, it tries to upgrade both packages in the
same pass. Dpkg notices a dependancy conflict and fails the installation.

Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 495
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Version: 1.4.0.7
Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), ncurses3.0
Description: Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
 This package contains the programs which handle the installation and
 removal of packages on your system.
 .
 The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program;
 a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in
 the form of the `dpkg' command.
 .
 In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to
 install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one.

Package: ldso
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 292
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
Source: ld.so
Version: 1.8.8-1
Replaces: libc
Provides: libdl1
Conffiles:
 /etc/ld.so.conf bcdcb23c5d5fb460cee2ce315ef7bd32
Description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities.
 The dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and
 linking DLL and ELF shared libraries.  It is required by any program
 that uses shared libraries, which is just about all of them.

Package: bash
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 760
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
Version: 2.0-1
Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libdl1, libreadline2 (>= 2.1), ncurses3.0
Conffiles:
 /etc/profile 2126802231b95136ee2e7d7435909afd
 /etc/skel/.bash_profile 9f8c1b78ada30b164f856ffe234edbce
 /etc/skel/.bashrc 118f882acfaf472e6a352b1baaf5db87
Description: The GNU Bourne Again SHell
 Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
 commands read from the standard input or from a file.  Bash also
 incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
 .
 Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the
 IEEE Posix Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).

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