Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > Drivers are dlopen()ed by the X server, and the ABI changes with pretty > much every new server version, so we had the drivers Provide the ABI > they were built for, and the server Conflict with old ABI virtual > packages. There's no filesystem conflict, so AIUI Breaks is preferred > in that case.
Ah, after reading Policy some more, I think I understand why that's the case. We should allow Breaks without a version on anything that's a virtual package or metapackage. Hm, although that won't completely resolve your problem since a bunch of the virtual packages that you'd want to break aren't otherwise mentioned in the archive (for understandable reasons) and hence Lintian doesn't know about them. I suppose we should just keep a manually-maintained list. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4rjqzmc....@windlord.stanford.edu
