On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:33:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Successor-Of: > As far as I know, a package isn't upgraded if it's name has changed > (e.g. fvwm2 -> fvwm or cdgrab -> abcde). This field is meant for this case > (the new package is "Successor-Of" the old package). There must't be more > than one successor of a package, and dpkg/apt should treat a package with > this field as if it still has the name it has before when upgrading.
This is useful (IMO, and not just because I want dselect moved out of the dpkg package >=) ), but one question: why only one successor? I don't see this as making the algorithms much easier, and it seems like there are times where you'd *want* multiple successors; eg, when a big package splits into a gazillion itty-bitty packages (netbase, netstd, .....) Daniel -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | The sigfile hits! | "...drums...drums in the deep!" | | You feel confused. | J. R. R. Tolkien | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/
