tags 726248 pending thanks On 19/01/2014 08:53, Samuel Bronson wrote: > Hmm, I must have thought this was covered well enough in: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726248#110 > > But I guess that left out the detail that Replaces is supposed to be > accompanied by Breaks (or Conflicts?), which is iirc due to the > unpleasent consequences that occur if you remove the replacing package > before the replaced package: the files are just gone. So, if you want > to continue to make those files available, it's best if you split them > off into their own, non-build-essential package, which systemtap-sdt-dev > could safely conflict with, but dtrace could still explicitly use.
OK. Makes sense, thanks for the explanation. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
