Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
> > > my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
> > > conflict with xfnt* packages < version x (a versioned conflict)? How will
> > > dselect handle this, will it upgrade the fonts to the new name?
> >
> > No, this would just make dselect to remove the old package.
>
> This doesn't change the current debate, but it occurs to me that a
> versioned provides would solve the renaming problem.
AFAIK, there is no such thing as "versioned provides".
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