On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2013-09-05 11:15, David Kalnischkies wrote: > [ Provides/Replaces up thread ] > >> The policy defines two uses of Replaces: > > […] > >> So my simple question is, which combination of relations should that >> be that tells a smart package manager to upgrade pkgA to pkgB ? > > > What about pkgB replacing and providing pkgA?
Because its usually an error to just replace a package without breaking/conflicting against it in which case it looks suspiciously like 7.6.2 – also just take the examples I mentioned and think about what happens: For example, you made mplayer2 now an upgrade for mplayer. I am not sure that is what their maintainers/upstreams intend. (maybe it is, but I am not keen on letting foo2/foo-ng maintainer decide what is a good upgrade path for foo – that should really be decided by foo maintainer). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- 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/caaz6_fd+bkrjnprzcdssgq3ar0z205o3h4eqpryi9zn0y_5...@mail.gmail.com
