On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:02:42AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> It is easy to find my packages with only the number version. *All* my
> packages have a debian version (the number after the -) who start with
> 0.x This version number scheme don't exist *at all* in Debian.
ii libunwind7 0.99-0.3
This is standard Debian practice for NMU packages. So clearly this is
often found in Debian. So that is by no means a way to identify them.
> I'm doing that since I started my repository in 2001.
>
> It is easy to see which packages come from my repository. Packages with
> -0.3 and -0.4
>
> ,----
> | ii libavutil51 5:0.10.2-0.3
> | ii libc6 2.13-27
> | ii libxine2 1:1.2.1-0.4
> | ii libxine2-ffmpeg 1:1.2.1-0.4
> `----
>
> Otherwise I've a big doubt if users read all the dependencies when there
> are doing a bug report.
>
> This doesn't work at all and probably break an installation.
>
> A provides field should provides a *virtual* package name and not an
> existing package name. See debian policy paragraph 7.5
I was pretty sure I had seen exceptions to that, but it certainly does
seem like a good policy in general.
--
Len Sorensen
