On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 03:37:39PM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> Unfortunately you can't use "provides" with a version tag.. Other packages
> might depend udev (=> x.y.x). The only solution seems to use a dummy.

That's no longer true. You can use versioned provides in jessie.

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