Comment 5 for bug 871615

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Evan Broder (broder) wrote :

Thanks for your contribution. I'm going to go ahead and upload this fix to precise, and then oneiric-proposed. Someone from the SRU team should be around soon to accept the upload and begin the verification process.

For reference, xvba-video has a versioned dependency on fglrx-driver, and provides can't be used to satisfy a versioned dependency, which is why fglrx-updates providing fglrx-driver isn't sufficient in this case:

  If a relationship field has a version number attached, only
  real packages will be considered to see whether the
  relationship is satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a
  conflict or breakage). In other words, if a version number is
  specified, this is a request to ignore all Provides for that
  package name and consider only real packages.

(from http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual)