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Re: Slink to potato upgrade



Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I'm afraid that won't help us now, since people will be upgrading with
> a dpkg that is unaware of this field.

libc6 could predepend on a new dpkg.

> However, I see no semantic difference between Breaks: and a versioned
> Conflicts.

Conflicts prevents packages from being installed at all, so is like a
backwards Pre-Depends.  Breaks prevents configuration, so is like a
backwards Depends.

Anyway, it's probably not not needed for this.  libc6->6.1 is a lot
less upsetting than libc5->6.


Guy


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