Re: Attempting to adopt two packages

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Justin Pryzby wrote:
>> However, I can't install it via dpkg, only through apt.
>> dpkg argues that it can't uninstall installwatch because checkinstall
>> needs it.
> But checkinstall doesn't need it, right?  You should probably drop
> that Depends .. You want to have Replaces+Conflicts, though.  You
> probably also want to add Provides, or a dummy package with the name
> of the old Debian package which is now included in the new package, to
> force the new package to be installed.
I don't depend on installwatch. The older checkinstall needs it. So
basically this is a "feature" of dpkg: checkinstall depends on
installwatch. Now, checkinstall replaces+conflicts installwatch (I tried
adding provides also, but it didn't work either), but dpkg refuses to
upgrade because the checkinstall version _currently_ installed depends on
installwatch, which has to be uninstalled in order to upgrade checkinstall.
So dpkg won't look very far in time, as probably was intended, to keep it
simple.

> /usr/doc/ is now a policy violation; documentation must live in
> /usr/share/doc/.
That was a typo. I am placing stuff in /usr/share/doc.


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Felipe Sateler