Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Q: dummy package for transition
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> * Do we need dummy package for smooth transition?
Unfortunately yes. There was a discussion about a "Supersedes" header
a while ago that would solve this, but nothing came of it.
> * The dummy package says "Section: oldlibs", is it true? It's not library.
It was a bit short-sighted of Debian to not use a more generic name
for that, but it is the best that we have and there are plenty of
non-library packages using that section. In any case hopefully
sections will be going away at some point to be replaced with debtags.
--
bye,
pabs
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