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"Obsoletes" and "Provides" #177

Open johntyree opened 8 years ago

johntyree commented 8 years ago

We want to think about how to deal with packages that provide other packages or virtual packages.

Problems include situations like setuptools -> distribute -> setuptools or PIL -> pillow.

Reference: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual

johntyree commented 8 years ago

We have a first try at a spec for this written out. It needs to be added to the docs.