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<p>If a metainfo file provides a <code><provides/></code> tag, distributors must also ensure that the package providing the file contain all items referenced by that statement, or is installed by a metapackage depending on packages which provide these items.</p>
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<p>This sounds like if this file becomes outdated, distributors would be supposed to stop distributing Geany.</p>

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<p>This gives upstream projects a (very light) way to influence distributor packaging.</p>
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<p>Meh.  It's not our role to package for a distribution, nor to influence it farther than making a sensible product.</p>

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