Re: Proper way to remove a package from both sarge and sid

[Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr>]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Then this is a release critical bug in the newer package, ..da-dk. You
> > should file this bug and prevent the buggy version from entering
> > sarge. It is not sufficient to remove your old package from the archive,
> > because user will still have installed it and get in trouble. Instead, a
> > new revision of the ..da-dk package must be uploaded that has proper
> > Conflicts. 
> >    
>
> Instead of that, I would upload a new version of mozilla-firefox-locale-da
> which is empty and has a Depends: mozilla-firefox-locale-da-dk, i.e.
> a dummy package. Put in section oldlibs and then deborphan
> will tell you that you can remove it safely.
>
> Then no conflict would be needed (well, a versioned one perhaps),
> and there would not be so much hurry in removing the package, as you
> will be helping users of the old package to install the new one.
>  
No, it would not be enough. Some people can try to install the new 
-da-dk package with your old -da package already present. Even if people 
upgrade your package at the same time, there is no evidence that dpkg 
will upgrade the -da package before installing the -da-dk package.
A conflict/replace on -da in the new -da-dk package is the (only ?) good 
thing to do

Your dummy package is only useful to force users to switch to the new 
-da-dk package on upgrade. In this case, the conflict/replace in -da-dk 
should be versionned.

 Vincent