Bug#572253: debian-policy: example for usage of Replaces: when a package is split
Hi Russ,
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:40:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> writes:
>
> > I asked in #debian-mentors about the usage of Replaces: and Conflicts:
> > when a package is split. Cyril suggested to provide an example in the
> > policy for that.
>
> > The patch below isn't tested at all, but should be human parsable to
> > understand the suggestion.
>
> Thanks! I've added the following example for the next release.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 02d6f8d..da3a687 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -4744,6 +4744,20 @@ Provides: bar
> </p>
>
> <p>
> + For example, if a package <package>foo</package> is split
> + into <package>foo</package> and <package>foo-data</package>
> + starting at version 1.2-3, <package>foo-data</package> should
> + have the field
> + <example compact="compact">
> +Replaces: foo (<< 1.2-3)
> + </example>
> + in its control file. The package <package>foo</package>
> + doesn't need any special control fields in this example,
> + although would generally depend on or
> + recommend <package>foo-data</package>.
> + </p>
> +
> + <p>
Great, thanks
Uwe
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