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Re: DO NOT REMOVE the lib packages after updates



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:31:33AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I hope I'm not mistaken here but when you include the soname in the
>> name of the library deb and it changes the DAK will keep the old
>> package in archive since there is no replacement for it, right?
>
> No; the DAK will remove the old package from the archive, because
> packages are removed by source package.

Ok, so that only works if the source package name changes. :(

God, api/abi changes suck. Why can't people just do it right and only
extend abis?

MfG
        Goswin



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