[arch-general] Does makepkg not honor 'provides' of other packages?

[Jan de Groot]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:58 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm trying to build "luabind" against an alternate "lua" package for
> c++. Its name is "lua-c++" and it provides "lua". It is installed
> correctly, yet "luabind" won't build with makepkg because of a missing
> dependency for "lua" which should have been provided by "lua-c++". What
> happened here?
> 
> -- Sven-Hendrik

It's probably a versioned dependency. You'll need to provide a version
also then.