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Re: Transition packages for libghc6-*-dev



Hi,

Am Montag, den 31.01.2011, 18:00 +0200 schrieb Kari Pahula:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:55:44PM +0530, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > I’m looking at the state of the ghc7 upgrade right now. In a chroot, I
> > installed ghc and haskell-devscripts, and then haskell-transformers
> > (which the new mtl will depend on). I’m wondering: Shouldn’t that
> > package Conflict with the old libghc6-*-dev packages? And can (should)
> 
> I'll vote for "don't bother".  The old libghc6-*-dev packages have a
> strict versioned dependency on ghc6, directly or via another library,
> and they'll get removed once the user upgrades the ghc6 package to the
> dummy package.  It'd take active user choice to not upgrade the
> package.

But shouldn’t we try to provide an upgrade path that does not remove the
user’s set of install libraries, but upgrades it along as well?

(I wish somehad had implemented package renaming in apt 10 years ago and
all would be well now.)

Greetings,
Joachim

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