On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > > Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? > > > Will you have some time for this? > > > > > > I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that > > > nobody will automagically lose functionality in the upgrade process. > > > > Done in experimental changes file: > > * xbase is now a pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or > > earlier systems > > * what was the new xbase is now xfree86-common > > Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc. > > Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones > unless the user had some package which specifically depended on some > of the old one and now depends on the new one. Since we can't guarantee > that this will always be the case, we need pseudopackages for all the xfnt > old packages and for every other package that changed its name.
Surely not? Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the new ones? (although this doesn't work for apt-get upgrade, I don't think) Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/