On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > Ralf Treinen a écrit : > >True, but this is really an exceptional case. I suspect the normal case is > >that one installs both packages. > > Yep, exactly. OTOH, I will just move the small desktop file in the > arch-dependent one, which is going to spoil some additional bytes, > but nothing too serious fortunately :) > > The only consequence is a typical conflict when installing the new > package because a file was moved from a package to another one, with > dependency issues (something I already experienced): One uses Replaces to indicate that there is a file conflict. > installed:package A > installed:package B contains <desktop file> > new:package A [new version] contains <desktop file> > new:package B [new version] > > Typicall update step when updating A: > - A depends on B, will update B later > - remove A > - installing new A, but <desktop file> already exist > ==> FAIL Package: A Depends: B Conflicts: B (<< newversion) Replaces: B (<< newversion) -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
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