Hi Russ, On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:40:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> writes: > > > I asked in #debian-mentors about the usage of Replaces: and Conflicts: > > when a package is split. Cyril suggested to provide an example in the > > policy for that. > > > The patch below isn't tested at all, but should be human parsable to > > understand the suggestion. > > Thanks! I've added the following example for the next release. > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 02d6f8d..da3a687 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -4744,6 +4744,20 @@ Provides: bar > </p> > > <p> > + For example, if a package <package>foo</package> is split > + into <package>foo</package> and <package>foo-data</package> > + starting at version 1.2-3, <package>foo-data</package> should > + have the field > + <example compact="compact"> > +Replaces: foo (<< 1.2-3) > + </example> > + in its control file. The package <package>foo</package> > + doesn't need any special control fields in this example, > + although would generally depend on or > + recommend <package>foo-data</package>. > + </p> > + > + <p> Great, thanks Uwe
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