[Bug 723731] Re: control alternative dependency expansion without actually seeding package

[Colin Watson]

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.

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Title:
  control alternative dependency expansion without actually seeding
  package

Status in “germinate” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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.

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