Re: Meaning of Providing yourself
>
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that a number of packages provide themselves, ie they have
> a Provides: line that mentions their name. This seems to be a pointless
> exercize, but perhaps I am missing something?
>
> ddd and et both do this in hamm and my status file has kpathsea and
> libg++27-dev as well.
libg++27-dev is an error.
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