On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:54:35PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is not a "standard" to make a package to disappear, but there is >>> something you can do to ensure that "apt-get upgrade" works: Just make >>> emacs-goodies-extra-el a dummy (empty) package which depends on >>> emacs-goodies-el, and make debbugs-el a dummy package which depends on >>> debian-el. Make them of extra priority and section oldlibs. Remove the >>> conflicts, so that these packages are actually installed.
>> I'm very glad I asked on this list. Many thanks! >> (makes me wonder if I should kill the extra package, considering it will >> live on anyway) > Are we allowed to kill dummy packages after one stable release? > If it were created now, I could simply remove it after sarge's release? There is no official policy about that, but imho the answer to your question is "yes". quoting a recent discussion on debian-devel: |-------------- | From: Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> | Subject: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM) | Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 03:52:30 +0100 | | On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:38:18PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: | > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:22:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote: | >> be fun though. I'm planning to only support upgrades from potato and | >> woody. So that means i can remove all the cruft about upgrading from | | > I was under the impression (don't ask me how; perhaps my mind came up with | > it on it's own) that we only supported stable->stable+1 upgrades... | | > Obviously not. Can anyone point me to a comprehensive rationale why not? | | Mindless optimism. If you try skipping a release on a box with a fair | amount of stuff installed, expect to spend all day fixing it. |-------------- I would like to add to this experience that all the packages added after woody's release have never been tested whether their debconf-scripts run with potato's bash at all (see e.g. #209720). cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash"