2011/5/15 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:07, Dan S <danstowell+de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2011/5/11 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: >>> Hi, sorry for taking so long. >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 15:57, Dan S <danstowell+de...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 2011/4/16 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org>: >>>> >>>>> - I would really like to fold all the -dev packages into one. I don't >>>>> see much point in splitting them. >>>> >>>> I've discussed it with the upstream devs and we're OK with merging >>>> them, so I've done that. >>> >>> Good. However, the relationship with thte old packages is wrong. It >>> should Replace the older packages. >> >> Ah right, thanks. >> >>> However, I'm not quite sure if we >>> should apply policy 7.6.1 or 7.6.2 (ie, Replaces+Breaks or >>> Replaces+Conflicts+Provides). >>> >>> What do others think? >> >> In lieu of any other responses (so far), the latter >> (Replaces+Conflicts+Provides) seems to me to have the better >> semantics, although we're not talking about virtual packages (which >> policy 7.5 is pretty specific about). From reading the guide I can't >> decide either; unless anyone can advise, maybe we should go for >> Replaces+Breaks. > > Upon further reading, I think we should use > conflicts+replaces+provides, because we are replacing whole packages.
OK, done. Best Dan _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
