Hi, Am Samstag, den 17.04.2010, 03:10 +0200 schrieb Stefan Potyra: > > just wondering, since we need to add so many: Woundn’t it be easier to > > introduce a source package "haskell-doc-dummies" providing all the dummy > > package? This way, we would not have to change and rebuild 25 packages > > now and 25 package in two releases, when we want to finally drop the > > wrong names? > > first off, thanks for taking that up! > > Would a -dummy package bring apt to a sane upgrade path? > Let's consier haskell-hdbc-doc (2.1.0-3) to haskell-hdbc-doc (XYZ) as built by > haskell-doc-dummies. I assume that if (XYZ <= 2.1.0-3) then apt wouldn't > consider it an upgrade? (Maybe a version number based on a value larger than > the maximum of all affected binary package versions of -doc packages might > work, haven't checked that yet). you are correct, the version number needs to be the maximum over all packages, which is no problem. Just use an epoch, i.e. a version of 1:1. > Likewise, as I've seen for hdbc, there's no package in stable, so it just > might not be worth the trouble in the first place. (Despite for Ubuntu, we've > got a release with the haskell-hdbc-doc package name). I haven't checked > other packages though, maybe the list can be reduced a little bit though. That’s a good point, but it would be nice to offer the upgrade path even for users of unstable. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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