Re: camlzip 1.01-1 uploaded ...

[Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:26:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:10:08PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >   It depends whether you want to keep smooth upgraded between the old
> >   package and the new package.
> >   If you want it smooth, you have to provide a dummy package depending
> >   on the new package. Otherwise, create a new one and ask for the
> >   removal of the old one. However, users might not understand what's
> >   happening on their system.
> 
> I really want a smoooooooooth upgrade, so smooth that I'm really tempted
> to wait for woody release before changing the name of libraries package
> I maintain.

  Si, unless versioned provides are implemented in both dpkg and APT, you'll
  need dummy packages.

  Cheers, 

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Jérôme Marant