Re: Unstable

[Erick Kinnee <erick@kinnee.net>]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 11:21:21PM -0500, Chris McKillop wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone...
> 
> 	I am trying to move WindowMaker back into a single deb package
> since there is no issue with adding hinting support for both KDE and
> GNOME into the binary.  However, right now the package layout has
> a wmaker.deb wmaker-plain.deb wmaker-kde.deb and wmaker-gnome.deb.  I
> want to remove the three -'ed deb files.  
> 
> 	Here is where I am stuck.  I have not been able to make a wmaker
> deb that properly removes the three -'ed packages on install.  I am now
> wondering if I even need to.  Since it seems that it is possible to 
> upgrade from hamm to slink (ie: wmaker-traditional and wmaker-superfolous
> into just wmaker) I would expect that I only need support upgrading
> from slink to potato.  Basically, do I need to support an interm 
> unstable upgrade?  I would think not since that is the nature of 
> unstable but I thought I would ask first before I go doing this.  It 
> shouldn't break anyone's system  it will just orphan the three -'ed packages 
> and people will have to remove them by hand.
> 
> 	Thoughts?
> 	chris

Wouldn't a simple "replaces" work?

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