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Re: Transitional (dummy) packages considered silly



Anton Piatek wrote:
>> This should really be done by the package management, not by the user.
> 
> It sounds like you are describing the following:
>>> $stable: package foo
> manually installed
>>> $stable + 1: foo Depends bar, bar {replaces foo, provides foo, conflicts foo}
> foo should now be marked as removeable, bar should be marked as
> manually installed (i.e. take the state associated with foo)
> 
> Can any of that be achieved with postinst scripts?
That's a very bad idea IMO.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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