Re: more and more broken packages?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> >    balsa: Depends: libaspell15 but it is not going to be installed
> >    gedit: Depends: libaspell15 but it is not going to be installed
> > 
> >    and libaspell conflicts with other versions of libaspell (I guess, 
> > when I try to install libaspell15 it wants to remove other versions of 
> > libaspell* and bunch of other programs that depend on these other versions).
> 
> aspell maintainer has made transition as painful as possible.
> I think it should be possible to work with just the Replaces, and 
> not the Conflicts, for easier transition, if the file contents aren't 
> really changed but just the package names.

Ah, I've noticed that it is a C++ library, and it should be 
doing its C++ ABI transition.

So, it's somehow doing something in the lines of being right, 
although the changelog is not very explicit about it.


regards,
	junichi