On 3/28/08, Savvas Radević <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, thanks, another question: Shouldn't there should be a compatibility mode 
> where the packages you offer should not try to update/replace the 
> deluge-torrent.org package, but to mark the deluge-torrent.org package as a 
> conflict, remove it and then install?

There is, you can specify that a package conflicts with another
package, which would cause the conflicting package to be removed
before the desired package is installed. The problem here is that the
deluge-torrent.org package is called "deluge-torrent", and so is the
Ubuntu package. So if deluge-torrent-common conflicted with
deluge-torrent, there would be a problem.

>  I'm not a package maintainer, but I've seen a lot of package versions
having ~ubuntu at the end, maybe that would help in checking and
replacing?

Version numbers only decide which version of a package is
installed/removed. The Ubuntu packages could add a conflict with all
the non-Ubuntu versions, but there are a lot of them, and more all the
time.

If you want the package management tool to behave differently based on
the ~ubuntu in the version, you'd probably have to get it changed in
the "apt" package. Given all the possibilities for versions and
packages that a user could have installed, I don't see that happening,
but feel free to file a bug on the apt package requesting it.

Cameron

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