Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> writes: > * Upstream released new version and bumped SONAME to 2 > * -dev package didn't change its name > * My mentor suggests that the new library package (libdframeworkdbus2) should > add the relationship "Conflicts: libdframeworkdbus1"
You do not want to do that. It defeats one of the primary purposes for changing the package name: allowing both versions of the shared library to be co-installed. > ...and such necessity is not reflected in the documentation. My personal > thought is that with "smooth updates" (as described in [1]), the old > library and the new library (with different SONAME) should be able to > installed simultaneously on any Debian Unstable / Debian Testing system > without any problem during the transition. Yup, exactly. > If that is true, the "Conflicts:" relationship shouldn't appear. The > "Replaces:" relationship [2] should not appear as well because there > won't be any file conflcts. Correct. You never need Conflicts/Replaces for a normal library SONAME transition. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
