Hi! * Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> [2010-03-01 18:18:24 CET]: > On Montag, 1. März 2010, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > Em 01-03-2010 12:53, Holger Levsen escreveu: > > > I think you should conflict with and replace tzdata (as in package > > > relationships). > > ^^ that is my suggestion. Add a "Conflicts: tz-data" header, a "Provides: > tz-data" header and a "Replaces: tz-data" header. You can probably leave one > out, but I always forget which. Consult policy :-)
This is the wrong approach. conflicts & replaces is only for moving files from one package to another. Given that tzdata (without the dash) won't drop the file this will cause serious troubles on next upgrade of tzdata. Two suggestions: tzdata is offered through volatile because of exactly this issues. Have you tried to check with the tzdata maintainers to get your data into there? IMHO that would be the cleanest solution. Another way, if you really believe that you want to do it on the outside would be to use dpkg-divert, move the files from tzdata that you want to replace aside and get your versions of those files into place. Please make sure that after removing your package the original files of tzdata get moved back again. Please try though to settle for ther former suggestion of coordinating updates through volatile, and use the dpkg-divert approach only as last ressort. Also, what are your suggestions to fix the issue in stable? Have fun! Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
