[SCM] ffado/master: Add Breaks: to ffado-tools.

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon Sep 27 22:43:00 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:16:01AM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:00:29AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:43:38PM +0000, adiknoth-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>
>>>    Add Breaks: to ffado-tools.
>>>
>>>    According to policy 7.6.1, Breaks is required to inform the package
>>>    manager to remove older packages upon upgrades.
>>>
>>>    This hopefully does the trick.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
>>> index e635883..94df4d1 100644
>>> --- a/debian/control.in
>>> +++ b/debian/control.in
>>> @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ Depends: libffado2 (= ${binary:Version}),
>>>  ${shlibs:Depends}
>>> Replaces: ffado-mixer-qt4 (<< 2.0.1+svn1856-2~),
>>>  ffado-python-support (<= 2.0.1+svn1856-2)
>>> +Breaks: ffado-mixer-qt4 (<< 2.0.1+svn1856-2~),
>>> + ffado-python-support (<= 2.0.1+svn1856-2)
>>
>> I believe Breaks should be used _instead_ of Replaces to have its
>> intended benefit.
>
>Don't we have exactly the example as mentioned in
>
>   <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s7.6.1>?

Oh, forget my comment: I was wrongly reading it as a combination of 
Breaks and Conflicts.  Breaks and Replaces go well together.

We had a lousy premiere here in Budapest where I am at currently, and 
some drinks afterwards.  I will get some sleep now instead of trying to 
think straight.

  - Jonas

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