Re: Bug#29104: X packages provide instead of replace
severity 29104 wishlist
thanks
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:55:59PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> Package: xfonts-base
> Version: 3.3.2.3a-7
> Severity: important
>
> All of the font packages "Conflict and Provide" their older versions. I
> believe what was intended was "Conflict and Replace". Otherwise, you
> manually have to remove each old package. And, since there should be
> few packages depending upon font packages by name, it really shouldn't
> provide the old package name.
They currently Conflict, Replace, and Provide their old names. For
versions -2 through -6 I did as you recommended, and got roundly bitched at
about it. By the GIMP maintainer, by others, ...
As with so many of my decisions regarding X, if I do things one way I get
people yelling at me, and if I do them another way I get a different group
of people yelling at me.
Unless you can point me to some specific policy that says I should just
Conflict and Replace, instead of Conflict, Replace, and Provide, I'm going
to stick with what I did in -7 because it decreases the volume of abuse I
receive in email and on the #debian IRC channel.
If you can come up with some policy in support of your recommendation,
please point it out to me; I will do as you suggest (i.e., revert to the
way I was doing it before), and use it as a shield against those who
complain at me.
Thanks. In the meantime I have several far more urgent bugs to tackle.
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