Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)
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Michael Gilbert schrieb:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:27:32 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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>> Michael Gilbert schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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>>>> Michael Gilbert schrieb:
>>>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>>>>> In general it looks good, but you have missed one important thing, if
>>>>>> you split up packages: conflicts and replaces.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now, if users upgrade from 7.0 to 7.33, dpkg would abort, because the
>>>>>> - -common package include files, which are also present in the
>>>>>> - -client/-server package.
>>>>>> So you have to define replaces and conflicts in debian/control.
>>>>> I have a solution, which I think solves this problem, but I'm not sure
>>>>> how to test whether to test the it gets resolved correctly with apt.
>>>>> Any suggestions on how to do that?
>>>> Without checking your solution now (out of time for today), have a look
>>>> at the geoip package for example. Have a look at the debian/control and
>>>> the changelog, why those fields are added.
>>> I think I have a working solution, which is up on mentors now.
>>> I'm able to start from all 7.0 packages, then using
>>>
>>> dpkg -i alien-arena_7.33*.deb alien-arena-data_7.33*.deb
>>> alien-arena-common_7.33*.deb
>>>
>>> does a successful upgrade. It only required a 'Replaces: alien-arena'
>>> in alien-arena-common's part of the control file. Please review.
>> It should replace alien-arena in version << 7.33. Without any specific
>> versioning, it would mean, that alien-arena-common replaces alien-arena
>> at all.
>
>>From reading the devel docs, I interpret 'Replaces' giving another
> package permission to overwrite files from another package (where
> normally that would of course be disallowed). It doesn't actually mean
> that one package replaces the other package.
>
>>From that perspective, versioning won't actually do anything since the
> new alien-arena package doesn't have the files that are now located in
> alien-arena-common.
But you won't replace the package at all, just specific versions and not
the future ones.
Also you won't see errors, where you packaged the same file in both
packages.
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