dpkg 0.93.72: update-alternatives, control file aliases

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

The primary reason for this release is the introduction of the
update-alternatives script.  You will need this version of dpkg to
install (for example) `vi' clones, when the package maintainers have
updated their packages to take advantage of it.

This version introduces some new names for old control file fields.
`Recommended' and `Optional' have been changed to `Recommends' and
`Suggests' (for consistency with the other related-package fields,
`Provides', `Depends' and `Conflicts', which are all verbs), and
`Class' has been renamed `Priority'.  The old names will continue to
work until well after the ELF transition (so that everyone will have
plenty of time to update their packages).

dpkg (0.93.72) BETA; priority=MEDIUM

  * /usr/sbin/update-alternatives added.

  * New names for certain control file fields (old names work
    as aliases): Optional -> Suggests, Recommended -> Recommends,
    Class -> Priority.
     
 -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Sun, 3 Sep 1995 16:37:41 +0100

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