"Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz" <rodrigo@nul-unu.com> wrote in message [🔎] 20060704013357.GI3181@caribdis.nul-unu.com">news:[🔎] 20060704013357.GI3181@caribdis.nul-unu.com...
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IANADD, and have no comment or answers for the first part.
And, another question, should the -indep package Depend: on the -dep one? Its files are, on the whole, useles without it, but I don't really understand if it's right to have such interdependency.
No. the -indep package sould only reccomend the -dep package. Depending on it would create circular dependecy, and that can cause quite a few different little problems. Other information:Normally the dep package will keep the same name. So it need not list the older version in depends or replaces. However as Kapil explained, the indep package (normally named $packagename-data) should conflict with the older packages,
as well as replace them.