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Re: Please upload fop (svn)



On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Damien Raude-Morvan
<drazzib@drazzib.com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 08:30:08, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
>> > Since you moved files from fop to libfop-java, I think you should add :
>> > Replaces: fop (<< 1:1.0.dfsg2-6)
>> > Breaks: fop (<< 1:1.0.dfsg2-6)
>> > to libfop-java ?
>>
>> I did apply you change on the svn however I still worried this is not
>> correct. fop package is still available it now has a new Depends:
>> libfop-java. I can see why libfop-java 1:1.0.dfsg2-6 and fop
>> 1:1.0.dfsg2-5 will not work nicely together. But I fails to see a
>> relation of Breaks and Replaces. Shouldn't it be a Conflicts: ?
>
> I've just followed Debian Policy here (see §7.6.1) :
>
> if a package foo is split into foo and foo-data starting at version 1.2-3,
> foo-data would have the fields
>
>     Replaces: foo (<< 1.2-3)
>     Breaks: foo (<< 1.2-3)
> in its control file. The new version of the package foo would normally have the
> field
>
>     Depends: foo-data (>= 1.2-3)
> (or possibly Recommends or even Suggests if the files moved into foo-data are
> not required for normal operation).
>
> See,
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts
> and
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

Thanks everyone for the confirmation. I feel confident the package is
in good shape now.
Could anyone (DD) please upload the latest from fop (pkg-java svn). I
have just dch -r'ed it.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu


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