http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979528
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979528#c5
--- Comment #5 from Michael Andres
! VERSION is NOT the version of the providing package, it's a property of the dependency
Can you clarify "property of the dependency" and how that is distinguished from the version of the providing package?
Wanted to express that in a dependency like 'advance-toolchain-devel = 8.0-5', the version(range) '= 8.0-5' is compared against the version(range) of some other 'advance-toolchain-devel' dependency, and never against the version of some package that happens to contain an 'advance-toolchain-devel' dependency or happens to be named 'advance-toolchain-devel'.
From the solvers POV 'Requires: zypper' does not select the package because it's named 'zypper', but because it matches the implicit 'Provides: zypper = %{version}'.
Matching is based on dependencies.
Pkg: Foo-5.0 Provides: Foo = 5.0 (implicitly)
Pkg: Foo-6.0 Provides: Foo = 6.0 (implicitly)
Pkg: Xoo-1.0 Provides: Xoo = 1.0 (implicitly) Provides: Foo = 7.0 (explicitly)
'Requires: Foo' will consider all 3 packages. The real package names and versions may come into play when pruning such a set of candidates. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.