Re: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Moving diversions between packages
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Why not have the new package ship libGL.so.1 to a more specific filename
> and create a symlink named libGL.so.1 by hand in its postinst ? That
> way you can defer doing the diversion until that part of the postinst,
> by which time the old package and its diversion are gone.
Oh, huh, I hadn't thought of that. But wouldn't this cause the library to
temporarily disappear, which would be contrary to the last paragraph of
Policy 8.1? Am I being too conservative about that?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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