Re: Bug#55811: dist upgrade didn't mention that fvwm2 was superseded by fvwm.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> [Cc to -devel; does anyone have any ideas how to handle this problem?]
>
> > Package: fvwm2
> > Version: 2.1.10-2
> >
> > Hi,
> > I upgraded to fvwm version 2 ages ago, and had removed the fvwm
> > package and only used fvwm2.
> > This meant that at upgrade time, fvwm2 wasn't upgraded, and fvwm
> > didn't appear. I suggest an addition to the post-inst script for fvwm2,
> > which checks if someone is in my position, i.e. fvwm2 installed, fvwm not
> > installed, and tells that that version 2 of fvwm is now in the fvwm
> > package.
>
> This is really difficult, primarily because the fvwm2 package doesn't
> exist any longer. The new fvwm package Conflicts and Replaces fvwm2,
> so I would have hoped that it would appear somehow. I don't know
> where to send this bug.
Don't you also need 'Provides:'? Or did I hallucinate that? Or is the
trick, to provide a dummy fvwm2 package which Depends: on fvwm? I'm sure
there is a trick for this one..
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