Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Joe Smith
"Christoph Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now when I install cream-doc (0.34) it looks like this: $> dpkg -i cream-doc_0.34-2_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package cream-doc. dpkg: considering removing cream in favour of cream-doc ... dpkg: yes, w

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 20:36 schrieb Adeodato Simó: > (uhm, I was replying to this, but I see that the split is already in > the archive. I decided for the split already and then was pointed at problems with 0.34-1 so I was rather looking for a half-decent solution now. Re-joining the pac

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 18:00 schrieb Simon Richter: > Christoph Haas wrote: > > 'cream' is a package with a lot of documentation. Until version 0.33 I > > had all the files in a single package. Now in 0.34 I want to split off > > the documentation so i have cream (main) and cream-doc > > (docume

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Christoph Haas [Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:33:35 +0100]: > Evening... Hi, (uhm, I was replying to this, but I see that the split is already in the archive. Executive summary: please remove the conflicts; I'd personally not split the package, but is your call; current status good, except for t

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Christoph Haas wrote: 'cream' is a package with a lot of documentation. Until version 0.33 I had all the files in a single package. Now in 0.34 I want to split off the documentation so i have cream (main) and cream-doc (documentation). That only makes sense when the documentation is l

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Justin, thanks for your reply. On Friday 10 March 2006 16:39, Justin Pryzby wrote: > You probably want to make a new dummy package, one which I guess will > have just copyright and changelog files, will be named "cream", and > will have Depends: cream-doc, cream-program. This will cause existing

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > Evening... > > one thing I never really dealt with before are package splits. And since I > couldn't find any clear policy on how to define the dependencies properly > I'd like to get a second (and even third) opinion on this. >

Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
Evening... one thing I never really dealt with before are package splits. And since I couldn't find any clear policy on how to define the dependencies properly I'd like to get a second (and even third) opinion on this. 'cream' is a package with a lot of documentation. Until version 0.33 I had