Re: be careful with Replaces, please
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Scott K. Ellis writes:
> > BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to
> > e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over
> > someone's system in all of Debian now.
>
> Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota
> depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs,
> and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a
> hamm upgrade.
>
> I thought that, e2fsprogsg being essential, would be flaged for
> installation as soon as it appears in the available packages. Is this
> not the case ?
Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have
suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump
and quota that would have depended on the libraries.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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