[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Ancient Libsword's

[Daniel Glassey]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Jonathan Marsden<jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>
>> Replaces: libsword1, libsword4, libsword4c2, libsword5, libsword5c2a,
>>  libsword6, libsword-runtime, libsword-config, libsword7
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsword
>>
>> Debian no-longer knows that  libsword1, libsword4, libsword4c2,
>> libsword5, libsword5c2a,
>> libsword-runtime, libsword-config exist. Is it safe for us to remove
>> them from replaces?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, but I don't know for sure.  Daniel would be the
>  most likely source of a real answer to this question.

Sorry for taking so long to catch up on my mail (still working on it).
The reason that most of those are still there in the control file is
that in Debian you are supposed to be able to upgrade from any release
to any newer release.[1]

afair libsword-runtime, libsword-config were never released but were
made sometime in unstable. So they could be removed.

Regards,
Daniel

[1] I'm not sure if this is true for all releases any more but it is
generally true.