Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-04 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:56:56PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:18:41AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Conflicts: foo ( new-version) And don't forget Replaces: foo ( new-version), that's what it's there for---files moving from one package to another! Oups! yes but

Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:56:56PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: And don't forget Replaces: foo ( new-version), that's what it's there for---files moving from one package to another! Don't use replaces unless you're sure you need it. Partial replaces have some strange effects in certain

Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-03 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:36:25PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Many time, apt-get break on conflicting files. It happens me often on unstable but also when upgrading from slink to potato. Here some recommendations to help users resolved the

Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Many time, apt-get break on conflicting files. It happens me often on unstable but also when upgrading from slink to potato. Here some recommendations to help users resolved the conflicts and also to help maintainers do the Right Things (TM) the

Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:18:41AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Conflicts: foo ( new-version) And don't forget Replaces: foo ( new-version), that's what it's there for---files moving from one package to another! -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG:

Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-02 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Mail cross-postoned, please, remove the debian-devel list before sending back Many time, apt-get break on conflicting files. It happens me often on unstable but also when upgrading from slink to potato. Here some recommendations to help users resolved the conflicts and also to help maintainers