On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:03:55PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it's such a widespread problem, we can assume that Debian 2.2's > > version of APT will support package renaming in some way. That means we can > > actually put off solving this problem until Debian 2.2, and even longer if > > the X fonts don't change. > > This means that we're willing to hold off on upgrades to all font packages > until the relevant apt support for package renaming is ready.
Sure, why not? Nothing in them has changed. > I just hope the rest of the world agrees that this is wise. Uh... yeah, me too. > [What's wrong with using the "empty package" mechanism, and waiting for > apt to give us a way of making defunct empty packages delete themselves?] I didn't think there was any plan to add "auto-delete defunct empty package" support to APT; on the other hand, I've seen lots of package renaming proposals. Besides, if the empty packages are unnecessary, why should we have them crowding things? Have fun, Avery
