On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:50:39AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > So all new packages will have to depend on this particular version of
> > > base-files or newer, or there is still no guarantee that the link gets
> > > removed.
> > Erm, no, they don't need to declare any such dependency -- the package
> > works with or without such a symlink.
> The package works, the removal won't. We will end up with a dangling
> symlink.
No, the prerm removes the symlink, and the postinst reinstates it
as necessary. The only problem is redundant symlinks when you're doing
partial upgrades to woody+1 (or later), which no longer need any symlinks,
from potato/woody. But they still all point at the correct places.
> This proposal was suggested to make a smooth transition. If this smooth
> transition can't be provided without allowing downgrades and upgrades from
> any version to any other version it is not worth the bytes written with. If
> the correct solution can not be achieved without keeping a prerm script in
> every package forever, I consider the cost to be too high.
So do I. But this is simply not the case.
Cheers,
aj
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