Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> What will a user told to install libpanel-applet-dev package do when they > see that? They will go to install either of the packages mentioned above. > But after doing so, they will discover that they still cannot compile their > old application which requires the old gnome1 library (yes, I realize it's > gone from Debian - but the user might not know that) and they will file a > bug about it. If, OTOH, they install a dummy package, it is trivial to tell > them that this is a dummy package and that they, alas, cannot compile > anything that uses the package. I might be wrong, but I guess that would be > a much more user friendly way of dealing with this situation. Even as to > advice them to install the gnome2 devel metapackage which would conflict > with anything devel from gnome1 and vacuum their system from the unsupported > cruft that way. OK, now I see the problem. I've removed the Replaces. christian
