Re: transitional packages and upgrades?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:11:41PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Stefan Huehner 2006-04-28 <[🔎] 20060428121044.GC28641@pro4u.org>
> > i've noticed that there are several packages in section oldlibs which
> > where already transitional in sarge (i.e.
> > shellutils,textutils,fileutils).
> > These should not be needed during a sarge -> etch upgrade.
>
> It's up to the maintainer to remove these.
>
> > Can these (including the reverse depends) safely be removed from the
> > archive? Or are updates from i.e. woody -> etch (excluding sarge)
> > officially supported?
>
> No, you are on your own if you skip stable releases.
... one of the nice things about making a release every so often is
that this is not specifically supported, so you can drop old cruft
that would otherwise have to stay forever, making stuff like
maintainer scripts even more dangerously complicated.
Justin
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