Re: gimp version in unstable

[Colin Watson]

Michael K. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why my gimp version was at
1.0.4 while gimp 1.2 had been out for quite some time.  As it turns
out, the package for gimp 1.2 is gimp1.2, which will not upgrade over
1.0.4 unless explicitly installed.

gimp1.2 Conflicts: and Replaces: ordinary gimp, which is usually enough.
Are you upgrading with 'apt-get upgrade' rather than 'apt-get
dist-upgrade', perhaps?

What's the policy for when a package is considered an upgrade versus
appending the version number to the end of the package?

Usually when people might reasonably want the old version. For instance,
one of my packages is trn4: it's in beta and lots of people seem to
prefer the interface of trn 3.6, so I packaged it separately.

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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gimp version in unstable

[Michael K. O'Brien]

Hola~

For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why my gimp version was at 1.0.4
while gimp 1.2 had been out for quite some time.  As it turns out, the package
for gimp 1.2 is gimp1.2, which will not upgrade over 1.0.4 unless explicitly
installed.

As it turns out, this isn't the only package where I've installed an older
version only because I tried to install the package name, not the package name
with version number.

What's the policy for when a package is considered an upgrade versus appending
the version number to the end of the package?

MO


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