On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:52:23PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > When a binary package is renamed or split, as well as if several packages are > merged under a new name, transitional packages are normally created, which > depend on the new packages, which in turn Replaces and Conflicts with, and > possibly Provides, the old packages. I find those dummy packages as silly to > create as to uninstall after upgrading. >
What about moving those packages under a transitional Section in the archive? That would allow users to easily detect and remove them after dist-upgrades for instance, and it would also allow maintainers to mark proper transitional/dummy packages. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
