Bug#694490: release.debian.org: unblock: aephea/10.008-2
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:05:30AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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.
Exactly.
zoem-doc gets shipped with squeeze (stable) only. It is not shipped with
wheezy, since zoem-doc is no longer built from the zoem source package since
zoem 10-265-1.
Bye,
Joost
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