Le Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:48:04AM -, Robert Woodcock écrivait:
> So, the gist of that is that dpkg has been left for dead (well, NMU hell
> anyway) for a full year and there hasn't been *that* many complaints.
> Just no new features.
I don't agree. I don't want to blame anybody since i'am not
Martin A. Soto wrote:
>
>Many, *many* people has proposed this idea before. So many, that you
>would be tempted to consider it a simple, natural, and straightforward
>idea. Nonetheless, it seems that this far, it has been impossible to
>make it part of dpkg, or even to start working on the necess
Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We need to add a new field - call it anything you want - I called it
> "Was-Part-Of:" in an earlier post, but I'm sure there's a better name than
> that - "Previously:" maybe.
>
> Anyway, say slink contains a package 'foobar', version 1.2-3. The
> main
Adam Heath wrote:
>I see a problem with all this talk about pseudo packages for upgrades from
>hamm.
>
>These 'pkgs' will have to remain in the system forever. If someone skips
>slink, and goes to potato when that is released, the same problem will occur.
>
>If we ever fix dpkg/dselect/apt to hand
I see a problem with all this talk about pseudo packages for upgrades from
hamm.
These 'pkgs' will have to remain in the system forever. If someone skips
slink, and goes to potato when that is released, the same problem will occur.
If we ever fix dpkg/dselect/apt to handle a pkg rename, and we c
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Now if we could only convince the netstd maintainer to make a
> pseudo-package for all his splits.. but he has told me he refuses to
> support upgrades for anything but dselect. :/
That's disappointing.
Why will dselect handle it ei
On 19 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Santiago> I think it is absolutely essential for the success of
> Santiago> Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose
> Santiago> functionality in the upgrade process.
>
>
> "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Santiago> I think it is absolutely essential for the success of
Santiago> Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose
Santiago> functionality in the upgrade process.
Brandon> Done in experimental changes file: * xb
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