2009/9/17 Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org>: > * Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org> [090917 05:18]: >> Hi, >> >> thanks to Ian Beckwith, the GNU Interactive Tools package 'git' has been >> renamed to 'gnuit' in lenny. :-)
>> I'm about to provide a new git binary package from the git-core (the >> distributed revision control system) source, so that 'apt-get install >> git' installs the git content tracker in squeeze. :-) > Let me say that this specific case does not affect me; I already use > git-core, so there would be no issue for me with an upgrade changing > packages. > > But, if I were a gnuit user and not a git-core user, I would find it > annoying (and possibly confusing) when upgrading from lenny to squeeze > to have a new package added that I didn't want and that is completely > unrelated to anything I had already installed simply because a more > popular package wanted to take over the name of a different package that > I was using. Perhaps including the version in the dependency helps? After all: if version(git) <= LENNY_GIT_VERSION --> git == "GNU Interactive Tools" if version(git) > LENNY_GIT_VERSION --> git == "Git Version Control System and Friends" Right? L (IANADD) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
