[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.8-1

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Wed Jun 6 10:21:34 UTC 2012


Hi,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Without depending on aptitude, can -common still install files to
> /usr/share/doc/aptitude?

Hairy IMHO.

> (Files such as examples/, though these are for an old, disused, and
> practically-deprecated feature.)

Well, the most important files in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/ are the
changelog and the copyright files. They're affected as well.

> > (downgrading to 0.6.7-1
> > and then purging aptitude-common will lead to a nasty surprise, for
> > instance).
> 
> Is downgrading supposed to be supported?

Nope, but people do it. Mostly between unstable and testing if
something breaks in unstable. So it's not necessary, but some kind of
"nice to have".

		Regards, Axel
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