Re: incompatible changes in unison?
On 10-04-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> writes:
>
>> On 08-04-2009, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>>> Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> writes:
>>>
>>> Shouldn't the upgrade warn about that so one can sync before the
>>> update and then start fresh?
>>>
>>
>> Once upgraded, you'll get the incompatibility message when using unison.
>> You can then still use a former version of unison to synchronize.
>>
>> Warning during upgrade won't prevent installing the package. So you
>> will end exactly in the same situation, except you will have an
>> additional warning -- which you probably won't read (I confess that I
>> don't read always the output of "apt-get upgrade").
>>
>> The best I can do, is to write a note in README.Debian.
>>
>
> Obviously it would have to be a "Upgrade anyway? yes/no" question to
> have any effect.
>
This more than a simple warning, so. I am not in favor of making an
upgrade fails because a single package, maybe even not used directly on
the machine, has problem with former archive on the machine...
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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