On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:36 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > (Sorry, I thought I had sent this earlier.) > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 08:39:05 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 5:33 AM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > > If that's the case, then we should have transitional packages with those > > > names that just depend on libproxy1v5 (>= 0.5.3). This serves two > > > purposes: > > > > What do you think about adding versioned Breaks/Replaces/Provides > > instead? That seemed to work when Ubuntu dropped > > adwaita-icon-theme-full this month. > > That sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't: it relies on apt being > able to find a solution that its heuristics see as acceptable. In my > experience, having real transitional packages has always worked, so it's > a more robust route.
Yes, your fix is fine for me especially since you've already uploaded. I wonder if the addition of versioned Provides is making upgrades like this smoother than they were before. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha