On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > The only clean way to do this is IMO a dedicated upgrader tool. This > tool could then have special rules for the following issues:
I don't know if we need such a tool, but it would be definitely helpful if we had a mechanism to give "hints" to aptitude/apt-get in order to let them know important changes in the packaging: It could be new fields like: Package: python-something Supersedes: python2.3-something, python2.4-something Renders-Useless: python-something-common It could be some generic regexps: Hint: python\d.\d-(.*) -> python-$1 We could have some priorities associated to hints so that very specific hints overrides global ones. > This is of course an etch+1 thing, and really specific for a given > release. > > You can of course imagine that these ideas don't come out of the > blue. In fact, such a tool is already deployed in ubuntu. I think we > could port it to debian as well, if enough people see a need for it. I've never evaluated it but such a tool should try to be generic: for example it should detect priority changes and proposes for example the replacement of netkit-inetd by openbsd-inetd. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
