On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:05:30AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2012-12-02 13:23, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 21:55:25 +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > 
> >> diff -Nru aephea-10.008/debian/control aephea-10.008/debian/control
> >> --- aephea-10.008/debian/control        2011-04-27 07:40:21.000000000 +0200
> >> +++ aephea-10.008/debian/control        2012-11-26 10:12:59.000000000 +0100
> >> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
> >>  Package: aephea
> >>  Architecture: all
> >>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
> >> +Breaks: zoem-doc
> >> +Replaces: zoem-doc
> >>  Recommends: zoem
> >>  Description: text-based authoring tool for HTML
> >>   Aephea is an HTML authoring framework.  It enforces HTML well-formedness
> >>
> > Does that actually work?  I'm not sure what Breaks without a version
> > even means...
> 
> It does; it means it breaks all versions of zoem-doc.  To my knowledge,
> it is mainly used when the package being replaced (e.g. zoem-doc) is no
> longer built from any source (as an alternative to use the "highest"
> known version of that package).
> 
> There was a request for making Lintian ignore the lack of version in
> such cases a while back, so Lintian no longer complains about the lack
> of version in this case.

Exactly.

zoem-doc gets shipped with squeeze (stable) only.  It is not shipped with
wheezy, since zoem-doc is no longer built from the zoem source package since
zoem 10-265-1.

Bye,

Joost


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