Re: pango1-xft2-ft219-dev-1.22.0-4

On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It would be nice if this package (and the other pango1-xft2-ft219-...
> packages) would specify that it provides pango1-xft2-dev, since other
> packages depend on the latter naming. True, those packages can change
> their dependency as well, but specifying the provides field here
> would be a nice gesture towards other packages.
>
> Thanks,
> --Laci
>
> PS: Sorry for a "not working report, but I couldn't figure out any
> other way to request an enhancement...
>
> --
> Package manager version: 0.28.6
> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Tue Oct  7 13:19:55 2008,
> 10.4, i386
> Mac OS X version: 10.4.11
> Xcode version: 2.5
> gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)
> make version: 3.80
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>

We don't have libraries do Provides: , because of the potential for  
unexpected behavior and breakage (and versioning in Provides doesn't  
exist in our Debian toolset, so that can add more difficulties).


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