Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: This way, apt-get upgrade will install libvips-doc without requiring apt-get dist-upgrade, and this will be done automatically and without user intervention, Are you certain of that? My understanding is that apt-get

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-16 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: The point I was trying to make is that a libvips-doc which conflicts and replaces libvips7.10-doc would force the removal of libvips7.10-doc when doing apt-get dist-upgrade, . . . I think this may only be

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Jay Berkenbilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The recent thread on names of library packages on debian-devel made me decide that I made a mistake in naming one of my packages. Specifically, the vips7.10 source package creates four binary packages: libvips7.10, libvips7.10-dev, libvips7.10-tools,

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: The recent thread on names of library packages on debian-devel made me decide that I made a mistake in naming one of my packages. Specifically, the vips7.10 source package creates four binary packages: libvips7.10, libvips7.10-dev, libvips7.10-tools,

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: I've read Section 5.9.3 of the developer's reference and understand it clearly. Is that still the best way to go? Not always, unfortunately. Very often, the upgrade will be smoother if you use empty dummy

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: I've read Section 5.9.3 of the developer's reference and understand it clearly. Is that still the best way to go? Not always, unfortunately. Very often, the upgrade will be smoother if you use empty dummy packages wisely.