On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:35:40PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Maybe we can keep the postrm/prerm in the old shishid package? I'm
> >> not sure if I got everything correct (I had troubles installing the
> >> 0.0.23 package at all), but dist-upgrade now seem to work.
> >
> > That wasn't really true... I'm tweaking things further, but haven't
> > succeeded yet. Stay tuned.
>
> The problem is, IIUC, that we can't use prerm/postinst to handle an
> old buggy shishid if we at the same time have a shishi-kdc do:
>
> Provides: shishid
> Conflicts: shishid
> Replaces: shishid
>
> When I run dist-upgrade, dpkg will use the prerm from the old shishid
> package, which fails, and there is no prerm from the "new" shishid,
> because there is no new shishid.
>
> One solution I see would be to provide an "empty" shishid with the
> prerm, that depends on shishi-kdc, and remove the above
> Provides/Conflicts/Replaces.
It should have
Replaces: shishid (<= last-version-with-real-shishid)
Conflicts: dito
At least that's my suggestion. Play with it, throw it in
the trash basket or do whatever you like.
Elrond
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