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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-06-20 10:42:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2019-06-20 10:50:50 +0100 |
| commit | 18b970aaefd04255947b05d446a09c8d19381ef7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6284c57c17aca79ddba60e1070cc59ebd1fdc7df | |
| parent | c70ed71b59c70b6d0ada64513f54052d52c42e5f (diff) | |
drop Provides: footnote
| -rw-r--r-- | policy/ch-relationships.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/policy/ch-relationships.rst b/policy/ch-relationships.rst index 3b68420..cdc7f65 100644 --- a/policy/ch-relationships.rst +++ b/policy/ch-relationships.rst @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ the ``foo`` package. A ``Provides`` field may contain version numbers, and such a version number will be considered when considering a dependency on or conflict with the -virtual package name. [#]_ For example, given the following packages: +virtual package name. For example, given the following packages: :: @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ virtual package name. [#]_ For example, given the following packages: Provides: bar (= 1.0) the ``bar-plus`` package will again satisfy the dependency for -the ``foo`` package with the virtual package name. [#]_ If the ``Provides`` +the ``foo`` package with the virtual package name. If the ``Provides`` field does not specify a version number, it will not satisfy versioned dependencies or violate versioned ``Conflicts`` or ``Breaks``. For example, given the following packages: @@ -697,10 +697,6 @@ dependencies. together and then configured in their dependency order. .. [#] - This functionality was introduced in dpkg 1.17.11 and newer and - full support has been provided in the Debian archive since 2018. - -.. [#] To see why ``Breaks`` is normally needed in addition to ``Replaces``, consider the case of a file in the package foo being taken over by the package foo-data. ``Replaces`` will allow foo-data to be |