On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey, > > I have two packages of which I'd like to include two versions in the potato > distribution, at least temporarily: majordomo and pciutils. > > There is an alpha version of the long-awaited majordomo 2.x available in a > CVS-tree, which I'd like to package if possible. On the pciutils package: > work is currently being done on the pciutils 2.x release, currently numbered > as 1.99.x. > > As said, I'd like to include both the official release and the alpha release > of those packages in the distribution, but I'm not sure how to do it. Of > course, a possibility is to create two packages, package_x.x.x.deb (which > currently in the distribution; the production release) and > package2_x.x.x.deb, containing the alpha release, and have those packages > Conflicts/Replaces each other. > > But there is one, in my opinion, disadvantage in doing it that way: when > those alpha releases get production releases, I would like to get rid of the > current production releases, but won't stick with the package2_x.x.x.deb > naming scheme, I'd like to have them called package_x.x.x.deb. > > What is the most nice way to solve this issue? Should I do it like said > above, or differently (for example renaming the current production release > to package1_x.x.x.deb and the alpha release to package_x.x.x.deb right now)?
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