Re: Uninstallable packages

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Uninstallable packages
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:15:41 +0200
Message-id: <20000412181541.E259@ulysses.alg.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-reply-to: <20000412133430.B19122@azure.humbug.org.au>; from aj@azure.humbug.org.au on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:34:30PM +1000
References: <20000405162436.A24201@azure.humbug.org.au> <877le6i9z9.fsf@hoss.orcus.priv.at> <20000412133430.B19122@azure.humbug.org.au>

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:34:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

>      * hurd-i386  571

> hurd is significantly different to linux, so some of its dependencies just
> don't make sense. There are versioned dependencies on netbase, eg, which
> is a virtual package on hurd.

There is also a huge amount of binary-all packages which are not installable
because their binary-any counterparts are missing.

Versioned dependencies are not a problem as soon as versioned provides are
there.

Thanks,
Marcus

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