Bug#734328: Bug#726248: Bug#734328: kfreebsd-kernel-headers: Don't ship <sys/sdt.h> here
tags 726248 pending
thanks
On 19/01/2014 08:53, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Hmm, I must have thought this was covered well enough in:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726248#110
>
> But I guess that left out the detail that Replaces is supposed to be
> accompanied by Breaks (or Conflicts?), which is iirc due to the
> unpleasent consequences that occur if you remove the replacing package
> before the replaced package: the files are just gone. So, if you want
> to continue to make those files available, it's best if you split them
> off into their own, non-build-essential package, which systemtap-sdt-dev
> could safely conflict with, but dtrace could still explicitly use.
OK. Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
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Robert Millan
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