On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Damien Laniel wrote: > Package: libaspell15c2 > Followup-For: Bug #317873
> To avoid this breakage, i think you shouldn't have put the lines > "Conflicts: libaspell15" and "Replaces: libaspell15" until most or all > packages which depend on it have upgraded to use > libaspell15c2. Uh, no. These packages *conflict* -- they *cannot* be installed together. This is not a mere convenience header, this is the nature of the ABI transition. > This is never good to have such a breakage because it's bad for Debian image No, it's the nature of development in unstable. If you are going to track unstable, you should expect such breakage periodically. > Furthermore, i guess testing would have this breakage too if you don't change > it. No, testing has built-in checks that are used to ensure each package is (individually) installable at all times. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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