Hi Josip!
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
> grafix1 should Conflicts+Replaces grafix, and grafix-dev should Conflicts
> grafix.
Yes this is what I thought too, thanks.
> > Let's say I have grafix installed and run an apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > IMHO it should upgrade grafix to grafix1, but I could not get it
> > to work with several mixes of Conflicts, Replaces and Provides.
>
> Yes, it's not possible.
This might explain why it did not work for me.
> > Perhaps we need an updated (and empty) binary grafix that depends
> > on grafix1? How long would we keep that binary around?
>
> That's right. But that's an ugly workaround for a feature that's missing in
> the packaging system. I'd rather not do it...
ACK,
so I'll upload a new grafix source that builds
Package: grafix1
Replaces: grafix
Conflicts: grafix
Package: grafix-dev
Depends: grafix1 (= ${Source-Version}), libg++2.8.1.3-dev, xlibs-dev
Conflicts: grafix
thank you
yours,
peter
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