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Michael Gilbert schrieb:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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>> Michael Gilbert schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>>>> In general it looks good, but you have missed one important thing, if
>>>> you split up packages: conflicts and replaces.
>>>>
>>>> Now, if users upgrade from 7.0 to 7.33, dpkg would abort, because the
>>>> - -common package include files, which are also present in the
>>>> - -client/-server package.
>>>> So you have to define replaces and conflicts in debian/control.
>>> I have a solution, which I think solves this problem, but I'm not sure
>>> how to test whether to test the it gets resolved correctly with apt.
>>> Any suggestions on how to do that?
>> Without checking your solution now (out of time for today), have a look
>> at the geoip package for example. Have a look at the debian/control and
>> the changelog, why those fields are added.
>
> I think I have a working solution, which is up on mentors now.
> I'm able to start from all 7.0 packages, then using
>
> dpkg -i alien-arena_7.33*.deb alien-arena-data_7.33*.deb
> alien-arena-common_7.33*.deb
>
> does a successful upgrade. It only required a 'Replaces: alien-arena'
> in alien-arena-common's part of the control file. Please review.
It should replace alien-arena in version << 7.33. Without any specific
versioning, it would mean, that alien-arena-common replaces alien-arena
at all.
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Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards,
Patrick Matthäi
GNU/Linux Debian Developer
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