Re: Renaming a package
Quoting Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>:
> I created a Packages.gz file to test the upgrade to these and added an
> entry to it to sources.list. Here's what happens:
>
> # apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> dpkg-dev-el emacs-goodies-el libsmpeg0 printtool rwho
> The following packages will be upgraded
> devscripts-el gnus-bonus-el
>
> So it's holding back the two affected packages. However, installing
> them explicitely works:
...
>
> Am I missing something?
I think Provides: doesn't act like Package: so APT doesn't understand
that emacs-goodies-extra-el has to be replaced by emacs-goodies-el.
Such a situation may change with (upcoming?) versioned provides.
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Jérôme Marant
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