[pkg-apparmor] Bug#832534: apparmor: please drop useless breaks+replaces
intrigeri
intrigeri at debian.org
Wed Jul 27 15:30:06 UTC 2016
Gianfranco Costamagna:
>>> "Replaces: apparmor-parser"
>>> I don't know exactly the rationale for it, but I would consider dropping it,>
>>I'll drop it if/once I'm explained why it's useless :)
> I can't provide an explanation, but the apparmor-parser package is not part of Debian
> http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/apparmor-parser/
> and it never has been, so I'm not sure how you can upgrade from that package
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=apparmor-parser&page=1 shows that the package is part
> of Fedora maybe?
> My wild guess might be that some external repository (Debian or Ubuntu), were providing that
> package, and the Debian maintainer provided an upgrade patch from unsupported third party repositories.
> In any case, that change is in Debian since years, so I think we can drop it.
Thanks a lot! I've dropped that Breaks relationship in Vcs-Bzr.
debian/control is much cleaner now, and backporting will be smoother
too \o/
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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