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Re: Various irregularities in base and devel section installs.

'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
>
>Several other problems are from inadequate dependencies:
>1. Installation of perl dies before complete unless libc5-dev is installed
>   first. Perl needs a Pre-Depends: libc5-dev to avoid this.

Oh my, I hope not.  This would be bad.  Since Perl functions properly
in this failure case, Depends is the only header change needed, I
think.

>One final complication, actually a coupled set of complications, comes
>from the tlc74/75 and tk40/41 packages and their repective -dev packages.
>In the "run-time" versions having version 74 and 75 both installed at the
>same time is no problem. The dev packages are another matter. For both the
>tcl and the tk packages they each both provide and conflict with
>tcl/tk-dev, so, if you install 40/74 first then you can't install 41/75
>later without a --force-conflicts. (This, btw, suggests that only tk/tcl.h
>and a none-too-small number of manpages would need to be renamed to allow
>these two to coexist together on the same system)
>It seems the intent here was to have only one of the two versions of the
>development package installed at any one time. It would be nice if these
>packages could, at least, be switched back and forth as the need arises.
>Adding a replaces tk/tcl-dev field to these packages would allow this to
>happen without needing --force-conflicts.

I doubt that Replaces: will accept a virtual package name.  Another
dpkg bug?

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