Re: Bug#49417: the new separated packages should conflict with old versions of netstd
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Gabor Fleischer wrote:
> > I saw that the dependency bugs are already reported:-) I think the best
> > way to resolve them is that netstd only SUGGESTS the packages that are not
> > really needed (for example finger,fingerd).
>
> That means that people who are upgrading to potato using apt-get will
> loose a lot of functionality.. that isn't a really good idea.
Hi Wichert!
This means that people who don't need finger (or fingerd is even much less
needed) will have to use it?
I think there should be a better idea!
OK, I understand, that netstd is separated, because for example if
one uses cfingerd, which provides finger-daemon, than he doesn't need
the simple fingerd. But nether I need it !
I see that the problem is not netstd specific. Maybe we should make
something with apt-get :-)
Or: provide a "dummy" netstd package which upgrades to potato and
depends on netstd2 which suggests all the other (not neccessary)
packages. Later netstd can be purged. This way at least the
people using dselect will see the new choice.
Flocsy
Gabor Fleischer
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