Re: lintian's breaks-without-version and virtual packages
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> I was considering moving xserver-xorg-core's Conflicts to Breaks, but
> that seems to introduce new lintian warnings about
> 'breaks-without-version'.
What's the motivation here? I thought Conflicts was more correct in the
case where there isn't a problem with some specific version of a package
but rather a basic incompatibility between two packages.
Hm, is it that the versioned ABI metapackages represent specific versions
of other packages and you get better upgrade handling this way? (Is that
measured or theoretical? There's a long Policy thread on this topic, and
the question seems to be strongly debated.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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