Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:

> 	Well, in cases like this the order in which the deb files are
>  presented to dpkg is relevant. So if a novice is upgrading a large
>  set of packages, and the packages are not presented in the corect
>  order, the upgrade process issues ominous sounding threats.
> 
> 	This situation is better avoided.

``This situation'' is similar to that of almost all libc5->libc6
shared library upgrades.  Avoiding it might be non-trivial.

-- 
James
~Yawn And Walk North~


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