On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
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> Michael Gilbert schrieb:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> >> In general it looks good, but you have missed one important thing, if
> >> you split up packages: conflicts and replaces.
> >>
> >> Now, if users upgrade from 7.0 to 7.33, dpkg would abort, because the
> >> - -common package include files, which are also present in the
> >> - -client/-server package.
> >> So you have to define replaces and conflicts in debian/control.
> >
> > I have a solution, which I think solves this problem, but I'm not sure
> > how to test whether to test the it gets resolved correctly with apt.
> > Any suggestions on how to do that?
>
> Without checking your solution now (out of time for today), have a look
> at the geoip package for example. Have a look at the debian/control and
> the changelog, why those fields are added.
I think I have a working solution, which is up on mentors now.
I'm able to start from all 7.0 packages, then using
dpkg -i alien-arena_7.33*.deb alien-arena-data_7.33*.deb
alien-arena-common_7.33*.deb
does a successful upgrade. It only required a 'Replaces: alien-arena'
in alien-arena-common's part of the control file. Please review.
Mike
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