On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:07:35PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it isn't. > > If it's shared then the packages involved know this > > Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't "know" > that there is not some other package, bar, which Depends > on foo and uses /etc/foo.conf . That's the problem. See > #108587 for additional discussion.
That's a red herring. It doesn't know that there isn't some other package that uses one of its binaries either. What should it do when one of them becomes obsolete -- leave it hanging around just in case? If package B depends on something that is no longer present in package A, package B is buggy, and needs to be updated (even if only with a versioned depends on an older A). Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beware of a tall blond man with one black shoe.
