This one time, at band camp, christophe barbé wrote: >On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:04:07PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> I intend to rename the glut packages from >> glutg3 >> glutg3-dev >> to >> libglut3 >> libglut-dev >> to follow the convention for library package naming. >> >> So in the control file, I've specified that libglut3 Conflicts and Replaces >> glutg3 for versions <= 3.7-15, and created a glutg3 package with no content, > >I am not sure but isn't it better to use 'Provides: glutg3' instead of >providing a package glutg3 with no content.
I did try to use Provides: but that didn't work, dpkg complained that glutg3 and libglut3 were conflicting: Package: libglut3 Conflicts: glutg3 (<= 3.7-15) Replaces: glutg3 (<= 3.7-15) Provides: glutg3 willow# dpkg -i ../libglut3_3.7-16_i386.deb ../libglut-dev_3.7-16_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libglut3. dpkg: considering removing glutg3 in favour of libglut3 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove glutg3 (--auto-deconfigure will help): billard-gl depends on glutg3 (>= 3.7-2) glutg3 is to be removed. dpkg: regarding ../libglut3_3.7-16_i386.deb containing libglut3: libglut3 conflicts with glutg3 (<= 3.7-15) glutg3 (version 3.7-15) is installed. dpkg: error processing ../libglut3_3.7-16_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libglut3 Selecting previously deselected package libglut-dev. dpkg: considering removing glutg3-dev in favour of libglut-dev ... dpkg: yes, will remove glutg3-dev in favour of libglut-dev. (Reading database ... 70338 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libglut-dev (from ../libglut-dev_3.7-16_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libglut-dev: libglut-dev depends on libglut3 (= 3.7-16); however: Package libglut3 is not installed. dpkg: error processing libglut-dev (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: ../libglut3_3.7-16_i386.deb libglut-dev -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
