On February 29, I sent a message proposing a policy change for -pm packages.
I'll reproduce it below, and then give some important updates.
There was no objection earlier; if anybody has objections to this policy
change, this is the time to state them!
Dear fink developers,
Last spring,
David R. Morrison wrote:
One implication of having versioned packages is possible conflicts among
them involving files in /sw/bin or /sw/share/man. My solution to this
for now has been to allow the various versions to replace each other,
with the understanding that this replacement is only going
P.S. In my new policy statement where we eliminate placeholder packages,
I forgot to mention one exception: We will need to keep storable-pm as
a placeholder package because of the role that it plays in bootstrapping.
(Maybe some day, when we completely stop supporting 10.2, we can change
this,
