Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-08-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi, It is complicated. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: = Case 2: package transition rule All the

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, It is complicated. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: = Case 2: package transition rule All the contents of the package foo is

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:05:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: = Case 1: only one package rule ... Thanks.

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:48:16PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [100726 17:27]: = Case 2: package transition rule All the contents of the package foo is incorporated by bar in

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: Not answering the Conflics/Breaks issue, but some remark about Provides. * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [100726 17:27]: = Case 2: package transition rule All the contents of

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Hi folks, Breaks field was added to policy in 3.8 and current stable dpkg supports it as I understand. So we are ready to use it, as I understand. Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best practice for each case scenario.

conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi folks, Breaks field was added to policy in 3.8 and current stable dpkg supports it as I understand. So we are ready to use it, as I understand. Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best practice for each case scenario. Please comment on my thought as below:

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Not answering the Conflics/Breaks issue, but some remark about Provides. * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [100726 17:27]: = Case 2: package transition rule All the contents of the package foo is incorporated by bar in new

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

2010-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best practice for each case scenario. Please comment on my thought as below: = Case 1: only one package rule install