Re: aspell upgrade woes
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:52:13AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
> > However, that fix is not in the stable package of aspell. In stable,
> > aspell-bin just depends on libaspell15 (>= 0.60), so a partial upgrade
> > of just libaspell15 would break aspell-bin. I suppose I could make the
> > new libaspell15 conflict with the old aspell-bin, but that's rather
> > clumsy and could make upgrades even more awkward.
>
> Why? This is exactly what a versioned conflict is for. The packages
> have to be upgraded as pair and apt/dpkg will hapily do that.
Policy does not recommend it:
A Conflicts entry should almost never have an "earlier than" version
clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the
package which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of
the conflicted-with package had been completed.
> Having libaspell15c2 conflict libaspell15 makes it no easier than
> having libaspell15 conflict the old aspell-bin.
Well, libaspell15c2 conflicts/replaces with libaspell15, which dpkg may
handle differently than a pure conflicts.
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