David Kalnischkies <[email protected]> writes: > Sidenote: I am not sure why the usage of 'disappearing packages' was > removed from the wiki as dpkg and APT support them in squeeze - at least > in my eyes it looked like the holy grail to prevent maintainers from > using all these half-working tricks in battle against APT, but i will > leave that up to decide for others as IANAD{D,M}.
You can't use disappearing packages with Policy-compliant packages so far as I can tell, since it would require both packages provide the same /usr/share/doc directory and changelog file, which is a Policy violation. -- 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]
