Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)

[Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>]

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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.

> 
> The packages are again available at:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/a/alien-arena
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/a/alien-arena-data

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 Patrick Matthäi
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