Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:03:55PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> wrote:
> > Because it's such a widespread problem, we can assume that Debian 2.2's
> > version of APT will support package renaming in some way. That means we can
> > actually put off solving this problem until Debian 2.2, and even longer if
> > the X fonts don't change.
>
> This means that we're willing to hold off on upgrades to all font packages
> until the relevant apt support for package renaming is ready.
Sure, why not? Nothing in them has changed.
> I just hope the rest of the world agrees that this is wise.
Uh... yeah, me too.
> [What's wrong with using the "empty package" mechanism, and waiting for
> apt to give us a way of making defunct empty packages delete themselves?]
I didn't think there was any plan to add "auto-delete defunct empty package"
support to APT; on the other hand, I've seen lots of package renaming
proposals.
Besides, if the empty packages are unnecessary, why should we have them
crowding things?
Have fun,
Avery
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