Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:

2008-05-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-May-08, 11:51 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using Replaces on its own seems bizarre to me. OTOH, some packages do > this; e.g., xfce4 Replaces xfce4-dev without conflicting with it. [0] It's not bizarre. That's how you move files from one package to another. It woul

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Armin Berres
On Sat, 17 May 08 20:40, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 17:57, Armin > Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > > Replaces must not come with Conflicts. > > Consider a package foo which contains a lot of architecture independent > > files. One day

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 17:57, Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Replaces must not come with Conflicts. > Consider a package foo which contains a lot of architecture independent > files. One day you decide to split the arch independent files into a new

Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:

2008-05-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:48:03PM +0200, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 0==0 > Info for debian-devel: we try to figure out how to package figtoipe. > Before version 6.0pre30-1, a version of figtoipe was

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-May-08, 04:30 (CDT), Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [This message is about using Replaces without Conflicts] > > I am not sure either. As you noted, the policy does not say to not use > it alone, but this just seems odd to me. Let's hope that someone else > will enlighten

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Armin Berres
On Sat, 17 May 08 11:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 11:17, > Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > >> When using Conflicts and having files in common with the other package, > >> you need Replaces as well. Otherwise, durin

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 16:02, Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Vincent Bernat wrote: >> The valid way to replace a file without conflicting with a package is to >> use diversion. This is not a solution in your case because you would >> h

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Hello, Vincent Bernat wrote: > The valid way to replace a file without conflicting with a package is to > use diversion. This is not a solution in your case because you would > have to ask maintainer of ipe to use diversion too and since figtoipe is > no longer shipped with ipe, he won't be

Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:

2008-05-17 Thread Alexander Bürger
Hi, 0==0 Info for debian-devel: we try to figure out how to package figtoipe. Before version 6.0pre30-1, a version of figtoipe was included in the ipe package. Since then, figtoipe is a separate upstream package and also gone from

Re: RFS: figtoipe

2008-05-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 11:17, Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> When using Conflicts and having files in common with the other package, >> you need Replaces as well. Otherwise, during upgrade, the user may see >> error messages about you