Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...
> Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package
> 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which
> 'Replaces: jikes-classpath' and 'Conflicts: jikes-classpath' ? Classpath
> could then keep its version number, and upgrades should still happen
> automatically.
No they wouldn't - AIUI you'd just sit on your stale jikes-classpath
package until you made a conscious decision to install jikes-for-classpath
(at which point the old jikes-classpath would be uninstalled).
With the epoch solution, the upgrade is completely automatic.
Ben.
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