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Re: Cross-upgrading packages with multiarch packages



On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:37:05PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> Upgrading multiple M-A: same to a single foo_2.0_all should definitely be
> forbidden though. But the opposite foo_1.0_all -> M-A: same
> foo_2.0_<foreign> ?

I think the applicable principle here is KISS.  You could allow dpkg to
upgrade foo_1.0_all to foo_2.0_foreign, but *nobody would understand what
dpkg was doing*, and why this case was different than the others. :)

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