Re: Bug#474529: Perl policy vs. the search order for .1{,p} manpages
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:57:34AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:20:54AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > Is this not going to cause some large measure of grief when either of
> > perl or libmodule-corelist-perl upgrades?
>
> I don't see why. The script is handled with dpkg-divert in the
> libmodule-corelist-perl maintainer scripts, the package doesn't blindly
> Replace: perl. Just like the module case, we assume that nobody wants
> to use the older script if a newer one is installed.
I'd contend that you should simply divert the manual page in the same
way. It's almost always wrong to handle manual pages differently from
binaries in maintainer scripts - if you divert foo to foo.real, you
should also divert foo.1.gz to foo.real.1.gz. (Similarly for
alternatives.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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