On Dec 15, 2003, at 8:39 AM, Patrick Näf wrote:
jfm said:Typically perl580 (eg) will install the same man pages, at the same place. So in order for the user not to have to force-overwrites , yes, you need such a Replaces (and perl580 too) _ if this is the case with your package.
Ah, I see, the whole business is about the man pages - I didn't catch that
earlier.
In that case, make sure that your package is at least as up to date as the one in perl580 _ and that the corresponding man pages are substantially the same
I'll do that then, thanks for the instruction.
I'm afraid I've still been too sketchy, and it is not that easy _ because the perlxyz
(say 580) packages need such a Replaces too, and it seems out of the question
to have to update (including rev-up) this every time a maintainer of one of those
+/- 20 packages checks his own _ this has to be centralized a bit one way or the other.
Maybe you would be willing to do this, and then coordinate with the maintainer of
perl580 ? An old list of pkgs to look at follows in PS (give and take one..).
Basically, it involves installing perl580, then building each of those pkgs and installing
them with dpkg --force-overwrites, so as to see the exact set of files that would get replaced,
then checking for each of those files (I would expect mainly man files, but if I remember
correctly there may also be sometimes scripts in /sw/bin, where obviously much more caution
is required) whether it agrees substantially (ie, conveys exactly the same infomation) with the
one of perl580. (Eg, by extracting also perl580 in a tmp dir, and doing, for each file,
'man full_path_to_man_file' to each of the 2 man files in 2 parallel windows).
JF Mertens
PS: attribute-handlers-pm cgi-pm digest-md5-pm file-spec-pm file-temp-pm filter-simple-pm filter-util-pm getopt-long-pm i18n-langtags-pm libnet-pm locale-maketext-pm memoize-pm mime-base64-pm scalar-list-utils-pm storable-pm template-pm test-harness-pm test-simple-pm text-tabs-wrap-pm time-hires-pm
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