Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Why not have the new package ship libGL.so.1 to a more specific filename > and create a symlink named libGL.so.1 by hand in its postinst ? That > way you can defer doing the diversion until that part of the postinst, > by which time the old package and its diversion are gone.
Oh, huh, I hadn't thought of that. But wouldn't this cause the library to temporarily disappear, which would be contrary to the last paragraph of Policy 8.1? Am I being too conservative about that? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871vat24ju....@windlord.stanford.edu
