On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:42:41PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:53:58PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > >> > We really need to get dpkg/apt and dselect/aptitude working as designed. > >> > Not supporting auto-selecting packages like this, in spite of it > >> > having been documented for years, is just embarassing. > >> > >> I agree, but I'm not sure that conflicts/replaces/provides is an > >> elegant way of telling the package manager "this package is what > >> this other package used to be". > > > > According to Ian, a simple Replaces was originally intended to have > > those semantics (in addition to suppressing warnings about overwritten > > files). Conflicts/Replaces/Provides would indeed be overkill. > > Seems like you'd need something like "Replaced-By:" so that an upgrade > process would know which new package to choose.
Nothing wrong with grabbing all packages that newly declare Replaces on it. You don't want to have to do it with Replaced-By because then you have to keep the old package around forever. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
