Re: RFS: alien-arena (updated package)
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Michael Gilbert schrieb:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:03:29 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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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.
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>>>>>>>> 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.
>
> Ok, that makes sense. A new version with just that change is now up
> on mentors.
Thanks, uploading.
This will take some years until it is up with dsl 6000 ;)
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