-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Gilbert schrieb: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0100 Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> In general it looks good, but you have missed one important thing, if >> you split up packages: conflicts and replaces. >> >> Now, if users upgrade from 7.0 to 7.33, dpkg would abort, because the >> - -common package include files, which are also present in the >> - -client/-server package. >> So you have to define replaces and conflicts in debian/control. > > I have a solution, which I think solves this problem, but I'm not sure > how to test whether to test the it gets resolved correctly with apt. > Any suggestions on how to do that?
Without checking your solution now (out of time for today), have a look at the geoip package for example. Have a look at the debian/control and the changelog, why those fields are added. > > The packages are again available at: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/a/alien-arena > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/a/alien-arena-data - -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktU2RUACgkQ2XA5inpabMcxhgCffGl9uem+elICuZxl2USYxiVe TXIAmgIWBn7vD5Y3HxOrR9EviFoqz2aE =iTNG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
