On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 06:51:52PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Raul Miller wrote: > > I agree (as long as new packages which depend on other new packages > > are acceptable). > > Would adding something like the following to section 2.3 be enough? > > Packages may have a relation with other packages through Pre-depends, > Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts and Replaces. If a package > declares such a releation to another package, that other package has > to exist in one of the sections of the same release. It can either be > a real package, a virtual package provided by another package or a > virtual package from the list of virtual packages. This says that a package cannot conflict with an old version of another package. That is bad! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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