"Mark Knecht" <[email protected]> writes: > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't?
It allows the affected packages to continue working until the rebuild is done. With the 'old' revdep-rebuild, a program using a library whose version was incremented by an upgrade could not be started (or would fail) until it was rebuilt to use the newer library version. With the 'new' @preserved-rebuild, the old version of the library is not actually removed until all the dependent packages are rebuilt.
