How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

Julian Andres Klode jak at debian.org
Mon Dec 21 15:41:07 UTC 2015


On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode:
> > Usually it is a Suggests from another existing package.
> 
> If I run "apt-cache depends gnome-shell", it says:
> Recommends: gdm
> Breaks: gdm
> 
> Is this normal, having a package both as recommended and as breaking?

It does not show you version numbers. gnome-shell recommends gdm,
because it works best with it, and breaks old gdm versions it does
not work with.

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