Re: What is the use case for Policy §7.6.2 ?
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> It looks to me that we should strictly favor the transitional package
> approach instead. Shouldn’t we entirely forbid the
> Provides/Conflicts/Replaces combination way of handling upgrades, except
> for virtual packages?
And instantly break even further the upgrade path of lots of
already-published packages? This is the sort of thing that might need a
deployment plan over two stable releases, it is probably better to find a
way to fix apt.
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Henrique Holschuh
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