On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: > Raphael, I've committed a potential fix which adds a few conflicts. I'm > hoping this will get the package managers to do the right thing -- > uninstall all acpi-support before installing the new versions. Do you think > this will work? I don't know enough about how smart these tools are > nowadays...
No, please re-read the Debian policy section 7.5. In this case, we only need to add "Replaces: acpi-support (<< 1.103-2)" in acpi-support-base. Because acpi-support-base has to replace one file provided by those versions of acpi-support. There's no need for a conflict because the content hasn't changed in an incompatible way. At most you could use the new Breaks: field (exactly like the Replaces above) to give a supplementary hint. It looks like I've done the previous upload in a bit of a hurry and completely forgot this part indeed... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
