Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 23 Jul 1998 17:07:40 +0000 Received: (qmail 10438 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1998 17:07:40 -0000 Received: from rabi.phys.columbia.edu (128.59.196.181) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 1998 17:07:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (zack@localhost) by rabi.phys.columbia.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6/R1.5) with ESMTP id NAA19516 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:07:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199807231707.NAA19516@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: magicfilter and gs-aladdin Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:07:38 -0400 From: Zack Weinberg Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.23-2 magicfilter Suggests: gs (>= 3.33). gs-aladdin Provides: gs. dpkg (or maybe dselect) does not recognize gs-aladdin as satisfying the suggestion, so you get a spurious dependency conflict every time you run dselect. I'm not sure this is a bug in dselect/dpkg, maybe gs-aladdin ought to be providing a specific version of gs. Or maybe we need a new virtual package here. zw