Re: Task list for a policy release
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > There's no requirement on the dak/ftp-master side. We're not using them
> > yet only because we don't want to force people to update dpkg/apt before
> > doing the etch->lenny upgrade.
>
> Ah, in that case, maybe we should hold off putting Breaks into Policy
> until we're ready to use them (in other words, after the lenny release).
Honestly I don't think it's important. I can imagine cases, where Breaks can
be used to provide supplementary information that we wouldn't want to
provide nowadays (because adding a Conflict would be too ugly).
I'd document it right now.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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