Re: Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"
Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 09:21:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has
>> the previous package installed.
> This is not a problem as upgrading to an unrelated software is not
> something that we should care about.
I agree it's probably not going to cause problems in practice in this case
(ironically, it's probably worse for the new software to have a higher
version in terms of unexpected apt behavior), but it's still breaking
apt's version model, and I'm not sure I can think through all the
implications.
Ideally, we would never reuse the name of a binary package for some
unrelated piece of software, although I know that's not realistic in the
real world.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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