Hi Dne Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:22:14 +0100 Cristian Greco <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> I test the package upgrade using apt with a local repository created
> with pbuilder. It seems to work fine for me both with my patch and the
> proposed patch.
>
> Using my patch the sole Conflicts:/Replaces: relationship is between
> d-t-common and the new d-core, which are the base packages for both the
> old and the new sets. There is no need to use Provides: because it
> should only be used if we want to keep rev-deps.
Adding Provides to deluge is not much overhead and it saves problem when
user had some own package depending on deluge-torrent (even if there
are no revdeps in archive).
> deluge-torrent-common --> deluge-torrent
> *
> | conflicts/replaces
> *
> deluge-core -> deluge-common -> deluge -> deluge-torrent
>
> Could you please point me to the possible problems generated by using my
> patch othern than the provided one (this is just for the sake of
> completeness, because I'm not really able to catch any significative
> difference)?
Leaving out deluge-torrent-common dummy package is probably safe
because deluge-core will be pulled in by dependencies on upgrade.
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