Re: rmail, m-t-a, and uucp
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Peter Palfrader (weasel@debian.org) [040328 17:40]:
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > > If something is split off a package, the package has to depend on the
> > > new package until after the next stable release. This is the only way to
> > > prevent breakages on upgrades, (e.g. with the Debian 3.0 uucp package
> > > and the Debian 3.1 sendmail package).
>
> > I think this is a good idea. Can we add this to the policy?
>
> Yes, I think we should. (And I consider this to be a policy-change
> that we can do before release of sarge, w/o breaking too many
> packages.)
Is it really a policy change ? As far as I know all major packages
splits had followed the above rule, and policy doesn't seem to document
upgrade requirement between stable releases at all.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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