On Monday 21 July 2003 12:10, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Andi Payn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The new behavior is probably better. But this means that a bunch of > > old inconsistencies that never caused problems before now have to be > > taken care of. > > a new job for distriblint ?
That sounds like the right place to put it. Maybe just check to see that no current package obsoletes another current package unless the two conflict? > > 4. Come up with a new policy for provides/obsoletes when replacing > > old packages. Just versioning the obsoletes will solve 95% of the > > problems. (If gimp-1.2 and gimp1_3-1.3 both said "Obsoletes: > > hackgimp < 1.2" instead of "Obsoletes: hackgimp" everything would > > work fine.) To solve the other 5%, don't ever copy over obsoletes > > tags from the previous major version (except where it makes sense, > > of course). Does the fact that you excerpted this quote without comment mean that you agree that this is a good idea?
