[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#820879: How to avoid version restrictions for JS libraries (Was: Bug#820879: r-cran-shiny: uninstallable in sid: Depends: libjs-jquery (< 1.11.3+dfsg.0~) but 1.12.3-1 is to be installed)

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Andreas Tille wrote:
> The thing is I used "replace" in the first place instead of embed but
> it resulted in
> 
> dh_linktree
> dpkg-query: error: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument
> 
> Use --help for help about querying packages.
> dh_linktree: error: dpkg --search --  gave error exit status 2
> 
> when replacing whole directories.  Is there any chance to do a "replace
> directory"?

I'm not sure what you tried here. But replace can definitely operate on
directories even though it will only act on all files below that
directory. You must have done some mistake in the way you use it...

And for your explanations of why you want to symlink a directory and not
the individual files, I can understand it, it's part of the trade off...
they are better in general, but they are painful if you have to revert
them to go back to the embedded version (because the Debian version is
incompatible).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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