control alternative dependency expansion without actually seeding package
Bug #723731 reported by
Colin Watson
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| germinate (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: germinate
It would be helpful to have a way to control the expansion of alternative dependencies ("a | b") without actually seeding packages. For example, it would be useful to be able to say "in this seed and in all seeds that inherit from it, prefer libavcodec-extra-52 over libavcodec52 if you find them as alternatives in a dependency". This came up while investigating bug 720476.
| Changed in germinate (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
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It would be useful to be able to control whether a real or a virtual package is picked in much the same way. I think this could be handled by the same putative mechanism.