Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)
* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [070324 01:12]:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:52:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > - making sure openoffice does not get removed
> > > Shouldn't it be easier to get it removed and the reinstall it?
>
> > Same arguments as earlier.
>
> > Problem with openoffice.org is that tasksel used to install
> > openoffice.org-bin which depended on openoffice.org. The -bin package no
> > longer exists in Etch. This probably should be fixed before the release
> > (by adding a dummy openoffice.org-bin package depending on
> > openoffice.org). No idea how complex this is when it comes to proper
> > Replaces/Conflicts and such.
>
> Well, it's painful in terms of build time certainly. I don't think Rene
> would be happy if we asked him for this. :)
We could upload a source-package dummy-openoffice.org-bin which only has
one binary package. :)
Cheers,
Andi
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