On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:06:11AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I would note that any bug that can be described as "fake bug to keep foo > > out of testing until bar is ready" is almost certain to cause problems > > with partial upgrades. Although generally discouraged by policy, would > > a versioned Conflicts be appropriate here? (I.e., do you regard the > > current versions of hotplug and alsa-base to be usable enough that users > > should be able to install them together? Bug #241225 suggests the > > answer is no.) > Unfortunately, I see no way of stating that the *current* version of hotplug > doesn't get along with the *current* version of alsa -- since they've both > been uploaded already. :-P > New versions of hotplug and alsa-base probably should have appropriate > Conflicts: with apprpriate older versions, yes. I'm not quite sure what. There's nothing that stops the hotplug maintainers from uploading a package that adds a version conflicts with alsa-base, if they have the alsa-base maintainers' word as to which version of that package will correct for the problem. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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