[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#527140: virtualbox-ose-qt: Strange package relationships with virtualbox-ose

[Frans Pop]

Package: virtualbox-ose-qt
Version: 2.2.2-dfsg-2
Severity: normal

I decided to try out the qt interface for the first time. While installing
it I noticed some things in the package that surprised/confused me.

Basically the package has:
   Depends: [...], virtualbox-ose
   Replaces: virtualbox-ose

1) Shouldn't the Depends be strongly versioned, i.e (= 2.2.2-dfsg-2)?
2) Depending on and replacing the same package looks, eh, weird.
   I assume it only replaces files in _previous_ versions of
   virtualbox-ose [1]. If that is the case, wouldn't it make sense
   to make that explicit by versioning the Replaces?

Cheers,
FJP

[1] Replacing files in the current version would result in unpredictible
    behaviour during package installation and thus be an RC bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose-qt depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.24       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.7-18       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.2-1.1  GCC support library
ii  libqt4-network              4.4.3-1      Qt 4 network module
ii  libqtcore4                  4.4.3-1      Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                   4.4.3-1      Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsdl1.2debian             1.2.13-2     Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.2-1.1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.1.5-2    X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                 1:1.1.9-1    X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                    2:1.0.4-1    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  virtualbox-ose              2.2.2-dfsg-2 x86 virtualization solution - base

virtualbox-ose-qt recommends no packages.

virtualbox-ose-qt suggests no packages.

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