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Re: Suggested clean-up of debian/control



On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:20 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> While working on my dpkg-dev bug squashing I noticed that dpkg's debian
> control has some very old stuff in it that is probably not needed
> anymore, like conflicts that are against potato packages or versioned
> dependencies that are automatically satisfied in woody and later.
> 
> I propose to clean up this stuff a bit to reduce the amount of cruft
> that gets assembled over the years.
> 
I don't see any reason to drop support for upgrades from potato ... in
fact, I don't see any reason to drop support for upgrades from *any*
version of dpkg...

They don't cost much to keep.

Scott
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