Re: intent to rename vips7.10 -> vips
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:42:41PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Anthony Towns wrote:
> >> > We really need to get dpkg/apt and dselect/aptitude working as designed.
> >> > Not supporting auto-selecting packages like this, in spite of it
> >> > having been documented for years, is just embarassing.
> >>
> >> I agree, but I'm not sure that conflicts/replaces/provides is an
> >> elegant way of telling the package manager "this package is what
> >> this other package used to be".
> >
> > According to Ian, a simple Replaces was originally intended to have
> > those semantics (in addition to suppressing warnings about overwritten
> > files). Conflicts/Replaces/Provides would indeed be overkill.
>
> Seems like you'd need something like "Replaced-By:" so that an upgrade
> process would know which new package to choose.
Nothing wrong with grabbing all packages that newly declare Replaces on
it. You don't want to have to do it with Replaced-By because then you
have to keep the old package around forever.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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