On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:49:36PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Josip Rodin wrote: > > this causes data loss if you switch to using the new packages without > > installing the new package[1], and then purge the useless old package > > without > > reading the postrm. > > Eew. That???s definitely ugly and, possibly, supported. > > I guess we can???t just add a versioned Conflicts to the split > packages either, right? Would a Breaks help?
No dependency affects purges, IIRC. The only reason the old package has remained in place after the removal is that it had that postrm and a conffile /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions.php that's been taken over by the new -base package. The only thing actually left in its file list is the /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions-enabled directory, which is also shipped by -base (but isn't a file so it can't be a conffile). -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org