Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > >
> > > > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
> > > > my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
> > > > conflict with xfnt* packages < version x (a versioned conflict)? How will
> > > > dselect handle this, will it upgrade the fonts to the new name?
> > >
> > > No, this would just make dselect to remove the old package.
> >
> > This doesn't change the current debate, but it occurs to me that a
> > versioned provides would solve the renaming problem.
>
> AFAIK, there is no such thing as "versioned provides".
Dpkg doesn't support them, no. I'm sure you knew what I meant as an
abstract concept, though ;)
It has been often discussed to implement them. I am merely observing
(unhelpfully) that they would solve this problem too.
J
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