(debian-policy.info)Declaring relationships between packages

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7 Declaring relationships between packages
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Syntax of relationship fields

Binary Dependencies - Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Enhances, Pre-Depends

Binary Dependencies - Depends Recommends Suggests Enhances Pre-Depends.

Packages which break other packages - Breaks

Conflicting binary packages - Conflicts

Virtual packages - Provides

Overwriting files and replacing packages - Replaces

Relationships between source and binary packages - Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Depends-Arch, Build-Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Arch

Relationships between source and binary packages - Build-Depends Build-Depends-Indep Build-Depends-Arch Build-Conflicts Build-Conflicts-Indep Build-Conflicts-Arch.

Additional source packages used to build the binary - Built-Using