On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:20:06PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > We're only talking about keeping old binary packages around which > > are no longer available from the new source package, which is precisely the > > case that is at issue with library transitions. > Ahhh. I get it. Just don't remove the old binaries unless they're manually > melanied, right? That much is trivial, and should just involve making > britney stupider by making it do less. The intent is that they would still be removed automatically, but that this would be a second step *after* the test for whether an update makes packages uninstallable. > The hard part there is working out how to hang on to the old source package > (which is needed for licensing reasons), I guess? Nope, by itself that should be fairly easy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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