On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > This is a reminder for myself to edit debian/control for the next > upload. I intend to Provide: sextractor-doc such that users of > previous sextractor packages (by me, with -doc package split by > Florian) will have that package removed (it is obsoleted by this > package). A separate -doc package is still a consideration, though.
Well, I started to split out a separate -doc package in 2.3.2-1, but
according to my webserver logs not even a single person has ever
downloaded those, and soon thereafter I dropped my ITP and sextractor
was completely removed from Debian (bug#204464).
> Florian, can you confirm that Provide will do what I want? I know
> Replaces+Provides+Conflicts is a thing specially interpretted by dpkg.
> But I don't need the Conflict or Replaces (though I could use them
> anyway, if necessary to have the effect). It seems that Provide:
> sextractor-doc will do the right thing, since ${Source-Version} will
> be greater than the previous version, and will cause an upgrade.
> Right?
All in all, Debian has never shipped split packages. I don't know how
widespread use your packages have had, but they weren't split as well
(or were they?), so I guess there is no problem we have to solve.
However, if you wish to make sure any sextractor-doc packages that
might have been installed get replaced for now you'll have to set the
triplet as mentioned above or in "7.5.2 Replacing whole packages" at
<http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.5.2>.
It might still be worth a though or two on whether a -doc package
should be split out in the future, though, but as you mention above
this is still consideration...
HTH,
Flo
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