El día 16 mar 2003, Santiago Vila escribía: > Richard Braakman wrote: > > 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. > > No, a Conflicts and Replaces just ensures that if you install the new > package, the old one is removed, but does not tell dselect to automatically > select the new package. That's why, in general, a dummy package should > be created every time a package changes its name. > > If this is not in policy yet, it should be. I haven't been able to find anything about this when I moved Ximian Setup Tools to Gnome System Tools, so I suppose it isn't, or I wasn't very good at searching for that. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo@debian.org
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