At the Ubuntu meeting in France[1] we agreed that we (well, I) will implement Breaks in dpkg in Ubuntu. I trust that this meets with the approval of everyone here.
The full plan for the Ubuntu deployment is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyFieldBreaks including references to the semantic specification (which is from October 1997). I think a similar plan would apply well to Debian and I'll be feeding the changes to Debian via the BTS in the usual way. In particular, I will do step (1), making dpkg reject packages which say Breaks:, tomorrow. Are there any people with extensive outstanding patches to dpkg including particularly dependency algorithm changes ? I ask because the Breaks patch is likely to be quite large and I want to avoid conflicts. Ian. [1] People say the conference was in Paris but actually it was in a desolate outpost of Airportland vaguely near Charles de Gaulle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
