Versioned vs. unversioned dependecies

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Hello,

firs, please do cc to me as I have not subscribed this list.

I have the problem that I do not have alsa and will never have as it
never worked for me. It is instable, have poor sound ... However, on the
other hand oss4 is working very well for me.

Unfortunately, as sound tools uses /dev/dsp (oss api) in the past, more
and more applications only support alsa today. To make that workable
with oss one has to install the hack liboss4-salsa-asound2. This has a
conflict and a provide for libasound2.

But now it is not possible to deinstall libasound2 (well, it is and
everything except the package management work well without libasound2)
so it is not possible to use this package. The reason seams to be that
every package has a versioned dependency for libasound2 which seems not
to be working with provides.

Is there any way to have liboss4-salsa-asound2 installed on debian? And
is there any way to overwrite the versioned dependencies?

Regards
Klaus
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