Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)

To: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)
From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:02:26 +0000
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Mike Hommey writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate 	appropriate for Priority: standard?)"):
> Maybe with the new symbols thing in dpkg-shlibdeps, the new package
> installation toolstack would not depend on the new libc... but there's
> no guarantee for that, unfortunately :-/

I still think the right answer is officially-supported backports of the
upgrade tools, built against the previous release.

Ian.

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- Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)
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