On 2007-01-14, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maintscripts often don't support downgrades just because downgrading has
always
been advertised as not guaranteed to work, so very few maintainers put the
additional effort and clutter into their code.
It is not about 'additional effort'
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On 2007-01-14, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maintscripts often don't support downgrades just because downgrading has
always
been advertised as not guaranteed to work, so very few maintainers put
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(pre|post)rm of package version 1.5 must undo the actions.
However, what exactly is undone must depend on the new version (1.3,
1.0, 0.4), which would clutter the code.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the old (pre|post)rm can only be called
with 'remove', 'pruge' or
Tobias Richter wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the old (pre|post)rm can only be called
with 'remove', 'pruge' or 'upgrade'. So the script does not know that
there is a downgrade (to which version?) being installed afterwards.
maintainerscripts can call dpkg to get the version of the
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(pre|post)rm of package version 1.5 must undo the actions.
However, what exactly is undone must depend on the new version (1.3,
1.0, 0.4), which would clutter the code.
Correct
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:31:28PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(pre|post)rm of package version 1.5 must undo the actions.
However, what exactly is undone
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:21:37AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
Package downgrades are not supported. Usually, they will work, since it is
often just replacement of a set of files with different ones (often the same
names) with different contents. I think if there were always true, downgrades
Package downgrades are not supported. Usually, they will work, since it is
often just replacement of a set of files with different ones (often the same
names) with different contents. I think if there were always true, downgrades
would be no problem (besides the general tendency for higher
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