Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > > Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages?
> > > Will you have some time for this?
> > >
> > > I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that
> > > nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process.
> >
> > Done in experimental changes file:
> > * xbase is now a pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or
> > earlier systems
> > * what was the new xbase is now xfree86-common
>
> Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc.
>
> Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones
> unless the user had some package which specifically depended on some
> of the old one and now depends on the new one. Since we can't guarantee
> that this will always be the case, we need pseudopackages for all the xfnt
> old packages and for every other package that changed its name.
Surely not?
Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the
new ones?
(although this doesn't work for apt-get upgrade, I don't think)
Jules
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