On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:39:23PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:53:53 +0200 > > Old package name is still provided as a transitional package that depends on > > the new package, so, if the old package exists on a system it will be > > upgraded and hence pull the new package name. I don't see that this is a > > reason for using Conflicts/Provides. > > Old package would _still exist_ if new one would be pulled via dependency > in that case, right? And new package should not depends on old package name, > since old package would not be provided in the future releases. ---end quoted text--- Exactly, the old package will still exist, but it can be safely removed after upgrade. And indeed the new package does *NOT* depend on the old package name. -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer GPG KeyID: 0xEDDDA1B7 GPG Fingerprint: 8206 A196 2084 7E6D 0DF8 B176 BC19 6A94 EDDD A1B7
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