Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2010-07-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: > So I think it's better to say: > > This is a stronger restriction than Breaks, which just > prevents the package listed in the Breaks field from being > configured while the package with the Breaks field is present on > the system. > > Avoids refer

Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:37:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > >>When one binary package declares a conflict with another > >> using a Conflicts field, dpkg will > >> -refuse to allow them to be installed on the system at the > >> +refuse to allow them to be unpac

Re: Multiarch and ABI support

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:02:32PM +0100, Hector Oron wrote: > 2010/7/18 Steve Langasek : > > I'm puzzled why dpkg needs a unique triplet for a port.  dpkg needs to map > > port names to triplets, but why does it need to do the inverse?  And if it > > doesn't need to map triplet->port, why would t