Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:46:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.7.2.1 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > As I report in #379140 (against dpkg), I have implemented Breaks in > > dpkg. The attached patch is the corresponding change to the manual. > > > > It would probably not be wise to apply this patch until we have > > settled on a deployment plan for Breaks in Debian; as I say in > > #379140, I hope to get around to that this weekend. > > Here is an updated patch. The changes from Ian's original patch are: > > * Add a statement saying that Breaks should not be used until support is > present in Debian stable, which I think was the consensus of recent > discussion on the policy list, and also note this near the mention of > Breaks in the Conflicts section. > > * Just remove the entire paragraph about suidmanager from the > dpkg-statoverride section rather than changing it to use Breaks. > suidmanager predates oldstable at this point; I don't think there's any > reason to mention it ever existed at this point. > > dpkg folks, could you please review this patch as a final double-check > that it matches the dpkg implementation as was committed and released? I > want to be sure that nothing changed from the original patch so that we > don't document the wrong thing in Policy.
The patch seems fine. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]