Re: Caught in the act
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:15:12AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
> Upgrading of that pkg is no problem. The old-lib vanishes, the new not
> including the utils installs. Same for the -dev, the old one being
> replaced with the new which includes the utils.
>
> But downgrading naturally blows. The utils (in new -dev) would have to
> be overwritten from the old to be installed lib-pkg.
Debian packages generally do not guarantee a smooth downgrade path, only
upgrades. If the user chooses to downgrade a package, she must be aware of
possible problems like this, and be able to resolve them with the packaging
tools.
That's my understanding, anyhow. YMMV.
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- mdz
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