Evening... one thing I never really dealt with before are package splits. And since I couldn't find any clear policy on how to define the dependencies properly I'd like to get a second (and even third) opinion on this.
'cream' is a package with a lot of documentation. Until version 0.33 I had all the files in a single package. Now in 0.34 I want to split off the documentation so i have cream (main) and cream-doc (documentation). My debian/control file of the new 0.34 package now looks roughly like this: ----------------shnip-------------- Source: cream Section: editors Priority: optional Maintainer: Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0.0) Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: cream Architecture: all Depends: gvim, ucf Suggests: cream-doc Description: ... ... Package: cream-doc Architecture: all Conflicts: cream(<<0.34) Replaces: cream(<<0.34) Recommends: cream Description: ... ... --------------shnup------------------ Without the Conflicts+Replaces in the cream-doc part users could install the new cream-doc (0.34) package and get conflicts because the same documentation-related files were formerly in the cream (0.33) package. So I needed to make sure it gets removed before cream-doc (0.34) is installed. Now when I install cream-doc (0.34) it looks like this: $> dpkg -i cream-doc_0.34-2_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package cream-doc. dpkg: considering removing cream in favour of cream-doc ... dpkg: yes, will remove cream in favour of cream-doc. (Reading database ... 173915 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cream-doc (from cream-doc_0.34-2_all.deb) ... Setting up cream-doc (0.34-2) ... Then the situation would look like this: ic cream 0.33.1-1 ii cream-doc 0.34-2 The old cream package is still installed (shouldn't it be "rc"?). While this is sane for APT it's a bit weird for the user because the documentation now doesn't fit the main package any more. I would like to install both new versions when either new package is installed. What would you propose to do to have a proper upgrade path here? Remove 'cream' in the 'postinst' maintainer script of 'cream-doc' if a 'cream' version of <<0.34 was installed? I don't want to make it even dirtier than it's now. Thanks in advance. Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
