Hi, Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 18:20 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 11:27 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e > Silva: > > > > Would a -dummy package bring apt to a sane upgrade path? > > > > Let's consier haskell-hdbc-doc (2.1.0-3) to haskell-hdbc-doc (XYZ) as > > > > built by > > > > haskell-doc-dummies. I assume that if (XYZ <= 2.1.0-3) then apt > > > > wouldn't > > > > consider it an upgrade? (Maybe a version number based on a value larger > > > > than > > > > the maximum of all affected binary package versions of -doc packages > > > > might > > > > work, haven't checked that yet). > > > > > > you are correct, the version number needs to be the maximum over all > > > packages, which is no problem. Just use an epoch, i.e. a version of 1:1. > > > > I don't see the need for an epoch. We can just use the version of the > > original > > package that was released without the old package name. > > if we build one source package for all dummy packages, all these dummy > packages will have the same version, thus we need to pick a version > higher than the maximum of all haskell-*-doc packages.
actually, not necessarily. With dpkg-gencontrol -v we can specify a different version number for each binary – might be nicer to look at, but no big deal either way. Probably not worth the hassle. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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