On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:53:56PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:06:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 
> > It is still valid for aptitude to remove xserver-xfree86, even as a
> > transitional package, if the old version is conflicted with.  There's
> > nothing in our packaging system that lets you mark a particular package as
> > "not to be removed on upgrade".  A dummy xserver-xfree86 package may fix
> > this for most users, though.
> 
> Right, but it might be a sufficient hint so that aptitude, and maybe apt,
> will do the right thing. Ok... I'll lower the priority of the note to
> medium and add the xserver-xfree86 dummy package. Hopefully that'll be
> sufficient. As discussed elsewhere, I'd prefer to use NEWS.Debian, but it
> won't be shown to the user in this case, so a medium priority debconf
> abusing note should suffice.
> 
>  - David Nusinow
> 


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