On 19 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Santiago> I think it is absolutely essential for the success of > Santiago> Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose > Santiago> functionality in the upgrade process. > > Brandon> Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a > Brandon> pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or > Brandon> earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now > Brandon> xfree86-common > > Branden has done a great job with the xbase upgrade pseudo-package.
No doubt, but until I see pseudopackages for the font packages, this great job is still unfinished. > Now if we could only convince the netstd maintainer to make a > pseudo-package for all his splits.. but he has told me he refuses to > support upgrades for anything but dselect. :/ I would consider an acceptable compromise that netstd had at least a Recommends for *all* the packages that were previously included in it that have been downgraded to Priority: optional (i.e. the ones that dselect will not select automatically). Is this the case? [ If case it would not, people upgrading netstd would lose functionality on the upgrade, and we would fail to our promise of smooth upgrades ]. -- "4c6ce55911369b1900e8aef9afdb467c" (a truly random sig)