Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, David Gaudine wrote: > for at least a year. After installing e2fsprogsg, I'm left with the > following "Available Required packages"; the very existence of this > section makes me nervous. I should add that I'm assuming that this is a transi

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota > depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, > and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a > hamm upgrade. > > I thought that, e2fsprogs

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-01 Thread David Gaudine
On 30 Nov 1997, Greg Stark wrote: > I know i should install a new e2fsprogs, obviously. I was just suggesting we > should find some way to avoid the default action being to deinstall packages > that aren't really being completely replaced. I'm not sure what better to do > though. In this partic

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, David Gaudine wrote: > It wasn't just renamed, it was split into e2fsprogsg and e2fslibsg. I meant to add "I think". The above is what I see from the descriptions that dselect shows me. dselect also lists the old package as "required base", wh

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to > e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over > someone's system in all of Debian now. It wasn't just renamed, it was split into e2fsprogsg and e2fslibsg. (

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > Greg Stark writes: > > > > We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header. I just > > installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully deinstalled > > e2fsprogs. > > That's perfectly normal if you previously had e2fsprogs