Re: RFC: Upstream author renamed his software
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:06:46AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Agreed. Note that this is one reason why updating from an older
> released debian version to a newer released debian version should not
> skip intermediate versions. If you do skip major released versions
> then this process to walk a package to a newer version is skipped too.
> Example: Going from potato to sarge, bad, skips steps in process.
> Going from potato to woody then update woody to sarge, good, gets all
> of the right steps.
Isn't this the problem that a combination of Conflicts and Replaces
is supposed to solve? dselect should automatically recommend replacing
the old package with the new package, without any dummy packages being
involved.
Richard Braakman
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