David Kalnischkies <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 00:58, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. > oldpkg depends on newpkg - and in terms of a package rename it should be > coming from the same source package. /usr/share/doc/oldpkg is a link to > /usr/share/doc/newpkg in both, the oldpkg and the newpkg, so that new- > can take over the last remaining file of oldpkg. > Isn't that exactly what ยง12.5 allows? Yes, but 12.5 is wrong in implying this is always permitted, because such packages do not provide a valid changelog in all situations. It only works if both packages are arch: all and have a specific versioned dependency (with =). At that point, you've narrowed the usability so much that I'm not sure there's any point in pursuing this technique. -- 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]
