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Bug#698778: preapproval of expect/5.45-3



On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 08:07:04 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> > --- expect-5.45/debian/control
> > +++ expect-5.45/debian/control
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> >  Package: expect
> >  Architecture: any
> >  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
> > +Breaks: expectk (<< 5.45)
> 
> AFAIK you should use "Conflicts" if you want to get a package removed.
> A versioned "Breaks" is better suited when you want to force the upgrade
> of the broken package but in this case, there's no updated package, so
> you should avoid it and favor "Conflicts".
> 
Anything like that needs to get tons of testing to ensure it doesn't
have unwanted results in squeeze to wheezy upgrades.

Cheers,
Julien

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