Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:48:04AM -, Robert Woodcock écrivait: > So, the gist of that is that dpkg has been left for dead (well, NMU hell > anyway) for a full year and there hasn't been *that* many complaints. > Just no new features. I don't agree. I don't want to blame anybody since i'am not

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-21 Thread Robert Woodcock
Martin A. Soto wrote: > >Many, *many* people has proposed this idea before. So many, that you >would be tempted to consider it a simple, natural, and straightforward >idea. Nonetheless, it seems that this far, it has been impossible to >make it part of dpkg, or even to start working on the necess

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We need to add a new field - call it anything you want - I called it > "Was-Part-Of:" in an earlier post, but I'm sure there's a better name than > that - "Previously:" maybe. > > Anyway, say slink contains a package 'foobar', version 1.2-3. The > main

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Woodcock
Adam Heath wrote: >I see a problem with all this talk about pseudo packages for upgrades from >hamm. > >These 'pkgs' will have to remain in the system forever. If someone skips >slink, and goes to potato when that is released, the same problem will occur. > >If we ever fix dpkg/dselect/apt to hand