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Re: package must upgrade another



++ 19/01/01 15:43 -0600 - Zed Pobre:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:18:27AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
> > 
> > Many user's don't know about abiword-expat and abiword-xml because
> > they don't replace package named 'abiword'.
> > I'm going to NMU abiword as it has RC bug about LATIN2 input that is
> > fixed in 0.7.12 (current version of abiword-* (not 'abiword') is
> > 0.7.11), So I decided to fix this ugly bug.
> > 
> > I can't find the solution. How should I set relatives of packages so
> > after apt-get upgrade, user  will get abiword 0.7.12?
> 
>     Make abiword an empty package containing no files, but depending
> on abiword-expat.  Change the description so that people know that
> they can delete it once they have upgraded.
> 

Is it the only way? /me doesn't like to create fake packages.




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