Re: debmirror not installing libdigest-sha-perl, even though it is a dependency
On 4/9/14, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:
>> Any idea why the following:
>>
>> $ dpkg -s debmirror|grep Status
>> Status: install ok installed
>>
>> $ apt-cache show debmirror|grep Depends
>> Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl,
>> libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl
>> (>= 5.815), libnet-inet6glue-perl
>>
>> $ dpkg -s libdigest-sha-perl|grep Status
>> dpkg-query: package 'libdigest-sha-perl' is not installed and no
>> information is available
>
> The perl package provides libdigest-sha-perl.
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdigest-sha-perl
So why is it also a separate package? It is clear I am not
understanding something here.
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