Hi, On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:28:13 -0000, Regis Boudin wrote: > Still playing with the conflicts field in the archive, I have more and > better data. First, I decided to go as far as I could in the archive, so > my checks now cover Hamm and Bo as well, including contrib, non-free and > non-US.
Nice! > I still need to move the conflicts against a specific version of a package > to its own page, but things start be look a bit clearer as I split into > various categories. > > All the data is still available at http://www.imalip.info/debian/ Could you group them by maintainer/uploader? > 30% of the conflicts declared in Sid are against packages which are not > referenced in any release since bo. It includes conflicts against non-i386 > packages, but I don't believe there are many of these. Yeah, those should be few, but to be on the safe side, this would have to be run against all arches. > I'm still not sure about what would be a good policy on removing > conflicts, but I guess some would be obvious. > > Any comment or suggestion is welcome. As we guarantee an upgrade path from only the previous release (oldstable -> stable), and we support for some time oldstable (security-wise), to not make backports more difficult, probably it would make sense to remove only those that affect oldstable-1 and oldstable once the support is terminated? regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
