On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > > > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon > > > my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package > > > conflict with xfnt* packages < version x (a versioned conflict)? How will > > > dselect handle this, will it upgrade the fonts to the new name? > > > > No, this would just make dselect to remove the old package. > > This doesn't change the current debate, but it occurs to me that a > versioned provides would solve the renaming problem.
AFAIK, there is no such thing as "versioned provides". -- "0a263ffbe215ba0de596b742f184c47b" (a truly random sig)