On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:50:39AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > So all new packages will have to depend on this particular version of > > > base-files or newer, or there is still no guarantee that the link gets > > > removed. > > Erm, no, they don't need to declare any such dependency -- the package > > works with or without such a symlink. > The package works, the removal won't. We will end up with a dangling > symlink.
No, the prerm removes the symlink, and the postinst reinstates it as necessary. The only problem is redundant symlinks when you're doing partial upgrades to woody+1 (or later), which no longer need any symlinks, from potato/woody. But they still all point at the correct places. > This proposal was suggested to make a smooth transition. If this smooth > transition can't be provided without allowing downgrades and upgrades from > any version to any other version it is not worth the bytes written with. If > the correct solution can not be achieved without keeping a prerm script in > every package forever, I consider the cost to be too high. So do I. But this is simply not the case. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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