On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > The only way the old dpkg will *use* a versioned provide is if the > dependency on it is *unversioned*, so it makes little difference WRT > backwards compatibility in tools. It does mean that to satisfy some
Eh? Package: A Conflicts: Moo (>= 1.2) Package: B Provides: Moo (= 1.2) Old behavior: Allow A+B, New behavior: Fail. I think that is a fairly nastys problem. > dependencies, you will need to upgrade to woody dpkg/dselect/apt before > proceeding with a potato->woody upgrade, but that didn't bother us with > the current slink to potato upgrade. slink apt+dpkg will happily upgrade to potato, we just recommend new tools for some corner cases. Jason
