On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 03:02:44PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > Old behavior: Allow A+B, New behavior: Fail. > > > slink apt+dpkg will happily upgrade to potato, we just recommend new tools > > > for some corner cases. > > I think you'll find that versioned provides will be a corner case as well. > > A practical one at times though. > Uh, not being able to use slink/potato APT to install woody APT/dpkg/libc > is not a 'corner case'. Well, one easy solution to this is just to release woody before anyone realises that versioned provides are available. A more general solution would be to add a lintian check and file RC bugs for them until woody's released. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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