- In <tt>Depends</tt>, <tt>Recommends</tt>, <tt>Suggests</tt>,
- <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>, <tt>Build-Depends</tt> and
- <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>(the fields which declare
- dependencies of the package in which they occur on other
- packages) these package names may also be lists of
- alternative package names, separated by vertical bar symbols
- <tt>|</tt> (pipe symbols).
+ In the <tt>Depends</tt>, <tt>Recommends</tt>,
+ <tt>Suggests</tt>, <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>,
+ <tt>Build-Depends</tt> and <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>
+ control file fields of the package, which declare
+ dependencies on other packages, the package names listed may
+ also include lists of alternative package names, separated
+ by vertical bar symbols <tt>|</tt> (pipe symbols). In such
+ a case, the presence of any one of the alternative packages
+ is installed, that part of the dependency is considered to
+ be satisfied.