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Re: Various irregularities in base and devel section installs.

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:

> >> I doubt that Replaces: will accept a virtual package name.  Another
> >> dpkg bug?
> >
> >This is not a virtual package, it is a superceeded package. The replaces
> >field will allow tk41 to replace tk40 if it is already installed, and vice
> >versa. There is no bug in dpkg on this issue that I am aware of (aside
> >from the multiple replaces problem going on with elvis).
> 
> tk/tcl-dev are /not/ the real package names (at least not in buzz nor
> rex).
> 
Tk and tcl were "real" package names in .93 R6. During the move to 1.1
these packages were replaced by tk40 and tk41 as well as tcl74 and tcl75
and the -dev packages were added. So, you are probably correct that these
are virtual package names, even though they do not exist in the list of
virtual package names. My feeling, from having worked with other packages
that do the replaces thing (like the non-dev tcl/tk packages) that dpkg
will handle the names issue with no problems and do the expected
operation.

Thanks,

Dwarf

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