Re: Updating fis-gtm package to 6.1
Hi Bhaskar,
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 10:33:05PM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:
>
> On 02/08/2014 07:12 PM (US Eastern Time), Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> [KSB] <...snip...>
>
> >> More precisely we are talking about versions:
> >>
> >> fis-gtm-6.0 (currently in Debian)
> >> fis-gtm-6.1 (recently released upstream)
> >> fis-gtm-6.2 (to be released upstream by mid 2014)
> >We should in any case try this packaging wise.
>
> [KSB] <...snip...>
>
>
> >>3) We will configure the meta-package "fis-gtm" to point to
> >> the most up to date version out of the three listed in (1).
> >
>
> [KSB] I think I just realized that we may not have a problem at all,
> but want to talk through it.
>
> If fis-gtm points to the latest release of GT.M, anyone installing
> it will get the latest version in the following scenarios:
>
> * Anyone installing fis-gtm will get the latest release of GT.M.
> * If a package depends on fis-gtm, anyone installing that package will
> get the latest GT.M at the time by virtue of the dependency on fis-gtm.
> * When there is a new release of GT.M, anyone who has fis-gtm installed
> will download and install the latest version of GT.M.
>
> The important thing is to make sure that installing the latest
> release of GT.M through the latest version of fis-gtm does not
> remove any older releases of GT.M already on the system. As long as
> we can ensure that older releases of GT.M must be manually removed,
> and will not be automatically removed, there is no problem for GT.M
> users.
According to Luis plan this is the case. While there are ways to add
conflicts with old versions but this is not part of the plan.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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