Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wesley J. Landaker w...@icecavern.net writes: On Friday 05 February 2010 04:43:05 Hideki Yamane wrote: This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority optional or extra package isn't likely to

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-05 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:01:12 -0700 Wesley J. Landaker w...@icecavern.net wrote: It adds additional strong restrictions on the order in which packages must be upgraded. Too many such restrictions and there might not be a way to upgrade at all. Somewhere before that you (via apt/aptitutde/...)

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-05 Thread Rogério Brito
On Feb 05 2010, Hideki Yamane wrote: BTW, I would rename tomoyo-ccstools to tomoyo-ccstools1.7 and not provide upgrade path for that. If I just would upgrade this pacakge, it'll break system that it works with security policies for 1.6.x, so I should leave it and provide README.Debian for

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 05 February 2010 04:43:05 Hideki Yamane wrote: This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority optional or extra package isn't likely to cause any trouble. Yes, it is true in general

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-05 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:00:47 -0200 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br wrote: BTW, I would rename tomoyo-ccstools to tomoyo-ccstools1.7 and not provide upgrade path for that. If I just would upgrade this pacakge, it'll break system that it works with security policies for 1.6.x, so I should

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp writes: Hi Matthew, On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:04:13 +1100 Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: In short: you don't. You should make it clear in the NEWS.Debian file that there are compatibility issues, and your README.Debian should describe how to

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-04 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:49:28 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp writes: And I have a question - why should we avoid using pre-depends? What kind of problem would it cause? (it doesn't mean I want to use pre-depends, just curious) It adds additional

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-03 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi Matthew, On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:04:13 +1100 Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: In short: you don't. You should make it clear in the NEWS.Debian file that there are compatibility issues, and your README.Debian should describe how to perform an upgrade manually (or point to upstream

how to compare versions

2010-02-02 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, I'm thinking about tomoyo-ccstools package update but it has a problem. It has no compatibility with current version (1.6.8) and newer version (1.7.1). So, I want users would be able to choice continue upgrading or not with debconf. I wrote that, but there's a problem - it compares

Re: how to compare versions

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: I'm thinking about tomoyo-ccstools package update but it has a problem. It has no compatibility with current version (1.6.8) and newer version (1.7.1). So, I want users would be able to choice continue upgrading or not with