I think, if you check with Marcelo's messages.. he's not orphaning the packages.. just will have no connectability for a while and was looking for someone to NMU it... if that's the case, I'd contact him before making such as drastic change...
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:33:36PM -0500, Chris McKillop wrote: > Hello everyone... > > I have a question. I have recently taken over from Marcelo the > WindowMaker packages. In the past these packages have been split between > wmaker, wmaker-plain, wmaker-kde, wmaker-gnome. I want to merge all > of these packages together. (this does not mean that wmaker is dependant > on gnome or kde, has it is just support for window manager hinting for > both of these environments, the total cost is less then 50K in the > executable). > > I have changed the control file to have the following lines. > > Replaces: wmaker-superfluous, wmaker-traditional, wmaker-sound, wmaker-kde, > wmak > Conflicts: wmaker-superfluous, wmaker-traditional, wmaker-sound, wmaker-kde, > wma > Provides: wmaker-kde, wmaker-gnome, wmaker-plain > > Now, when I build the new combined wmaker deb with all of the previous > debs installed (wmaker, wmaker-plain, wmaker-kde, wmaker-gnome) it complains > about a conflict. First, dpkg checks the wmaker-kde package and determins > that it can remove it without a problem, but when it hits the wmaker-gnome > package it screams about wmaker and wmaker-gnome being conflicting packages > and halts the install. > > I cannot explain to myself why wmaker-kde would get processed > correctly and wmaker-gnome does not. Any ideas? Do you need more > information? > > chris > > -- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > chris mckillop - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The faster I go, the behinder I get." > Debian GNU/Linux -- Lewis Carroll > http://www.debian.org/ > Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group - http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~warg/ -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * =========================================================================
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