Re: apt-listchanges on changing soname
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:17:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> > Dear Matt,
> >
> > upon uploading the new teTeX 3.0 into unstable a new soname will be
> > introduced (libkpathsea-dev -> libkpathsea4-dev). The control file of
> > the new lib will make sure the upgrade will work.
> > Question: will apt-listchanges upon upgrade be so clever to consider
> > this to be an upgrade and display the changelog and NEWS.Debian of
> > that libkpathsea4-dev?
>
> You should know that libkpathsea4-dev Provides: libkpathsea-dev
If there is at least one binary package from the same source package which
is installed and upgraded to a newer version, the changes will be displayed.
apt-listchanges doesn't try to keep track of which packages are removed and
guess whether they are being superseded by a package being newly installed.
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- mdz
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