On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Old behavior: Allow A+B, New behavior: Fail. > > Which is exactly what Ben said.
Hardly. Ben implied it didn't really matter if the old tools ignored the version information, clearly that is wrong. > > slink apt+dpkg will happily upgrade to potato, we just recommend new tools > > for some corner cases. > I think you'll find that versioned provides will be a corner case as well. > A practical one at times though. Uh, not being able to use slink/potato APT to install woody APT/dpkg/libc is not a 'corner case'. Jason
