Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field
- To: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field
- From: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 11:20:55 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 877jg7nczs.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- In-reply-to: <1119613159.5553.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Gustavo Noronha Silva's message of "Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:39:19 -0300")
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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> writes:
> Em Qui, 2005-06-23 Ã s 12:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu:
>> OK. That is what I am looking for. I want to completely replace the
>> two packages that cannot coexist with the new icewmcp package.
>> Currently, I must use dummy packages for that, correct?
>
> Correct. And Conflicts: with version <= ${Source-Version} of both, if
> icewmcp has a greater version than both. I guess you'll need to use an
> epoch if not.
>
> See ya,
A source package can build binary packages with different versions.
E.g. icewmcp 1.0-1 source could build:
icewmcp 1.0-1
iceme 1.0.0-12.1
iceperf 1:1.2-3
Absolutely no problem with that.
MfG
Goswin
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