Bug#694490: release.debian.org: unblock: aephea/10.008-2

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-12-02 13:23, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 21:55:25 +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> 
>> diff -Nru aephea-10.008/debian/control aephea-10.008/debian/control
>> --- aephea-10.008/debian/control        2011-04-27 07:40:21.000000000 +0200
>> +++ aephea-10.008/debian/control        2012-11-26 10:12:59.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>>  Package: aephea
>>  Architecture: all
>>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
>> +Breaks: zoem-doc
>> +Replaces: zoem-doc
>>  Recommends: zoem
>>  Description: text-based authoring tool for HTML
>>   Aephea is an HTML authoring framework.  It enforces HTML well-formedness
>>
> Does that actually work?  I'm not sure what Breaks without a version
> even means...
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

It does; it means it breaks all versions of zoem-doc.  To my knowledge,
it is mainly used when the package being replaced (e.g. zoem-doc) is no
longer built from any source (as an alternative to use the "highest"
known version of that package).

There was a request for making Lintian ignore the lack of version in
such cases a while back, so Lintian no longer complains about the lack
of version in this case.

~Niels