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Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)



Fabian Pietsch wrote:
> > However, dh_scrollkeeper doesn't generate the scrollkeeper dependency
> > in the control file, which makes it excessively hard to get the
> > dependency up to date.  (This was a mistake in the design of
> > dh_scrollkeeper.)  The bad consequences of the inaccurate dependencies
> > are less severe than the contortions which would be required to deal
> > with the problem.
> 
> Why can't an updated dh_scrollkeeper set a versioned Conflicts of the
> triggers unaware scrollkeeper packages on new gnome packages? Would it
> be a problem if there is a "Conflicts: scrollkeeper (< N)" and at the
> same time a "Depends: scrollkeeper (>= 3.8)" with 3.8 being less than N?

I already discussed this with Ian in the first thread. I don't know why
he left in the text about dh_scrollkeeper being "misdesigned", which it
isn't.

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