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Re: please remove current libsdl-image1.2, libsdl-perl etc. from sarge.



Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> immo vero scripsit:

> There is no one to blame, as this could have happened to anyone,
> including you and me. What we can conclude is that :
> 1) we should not forget to use priorities,

Priorities isn't a field to control dependencies.

libsdl-image1.2 should really have conflicted with anything
that was compiled against libsdl-image1.2 and libpng2.

And the easiest way to accomplish it is to use different
package name. See chapter 9 of libpkg-guide, which
discusses this point.


regards,
	junichi

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