Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > By the looks of it [1], Lintian does not handle self relations too > well with Replaces + Provides.
> The observation done so far is that xabacus (Provides, Conflicts and > Replaces itself) is correctly done (in terms of §7.6.2). > The apache2-suexec package does not provide itself (but it has > Conflicts and Replaces on itself). The question is whether or not it > needs the provide itself explicitly. I don't think it should, although the dpkg maintainers would know for sure. But I suspect Lintian should say that's fine in the case where the virtual package name is the same as the real package name, as it is in this case. > Also not sure what is up with nvidia-kernel-dkms. By the looks of it, > it is using §7.6.2, but missing a replaces. Russ, is that correctly > asserted of me? Yes, that looks correct. I think that set of packages should all have Replaces as well. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
