Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts
Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> asked:
> Can't we just provide an empty placeholder package (like we've done so
> many times in the past) and change timezones to conflict with prior
> versions of the timezone package?
timezones (from hamm) declares that it "Replaces: timezone" and
"Conflicts: timezone". timezone: 7.48-3I from rex is "Essential: yes",
which is not the case in ver. 7.55-2 in bo. I thought dpkg would
happily replace timezone with with timezones, but it refuses. I'm not
familiar with the empty placeholder package concept. If it works, it
would certainly be an alternate to the solution now used in autoup.sh.
Bob
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