Re: Slink -> Potato upgrade report

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:17:02PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > 1. When I upgraded, fvwm1 got automatically replaced with
> > fvwm2. If I wanted fvwm2 I would have installed it myself.
> 
> But you want the new version of everything else, right? (Else you wouldn't
> upgrade.) How does the system know you don't want to upgrade fvwm?

It's because the packages changed names from slink to potato.

fvwm  => fvwm1
fvwm2 => fvwm

I've just noticed the last apt-get upgrade trashed my fvwm config
without
leaning a backup. *sigh*. I'll try to track this down.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>

Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K.
It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.