Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:56:56PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:18:41AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> > Conflicts: foo (<< new-version)
>
> And don't forget Replaces: foo (<< new-version), that's what it's there
> for---files moving from one package to another!
Oups! yes but only in the second part of the mail (where foo no more
exists). When foo still exist, Replaces must NOT be used! Often, this
happen when a single binary source package became a multi-binaries source
package: the maintainer forget to add a Conflict to the new package against
the old one (who still exists!).
Exemple:
foo (1.0-1) became
foo (1.0-2) and foo-doc (1.0-2)
because foo-doc contains some files in foo (1.0-1), it must have:
Conflicts: foo (<< 1.0-2)
and possibly Suggests: foo (1.0-2)
but no Replaces since we still want foo (1.0-2) be installed.
At least, that's the way I understand it (your versioning of replaces
make me doubt a little; if we add the Replaces field as you suggest,
what foo (1.0-2) dependencies will be?).
>
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> * joeyh cvs commits his home directory. Aaaaaa
> <drow> eeeeeeek
> <drow> joeyh: That is simply evil. Period.
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