[Pkg-samba-maint] [SCM] Debian packaging for Samba branch, samba_4.0, updated. upstream/4.0.6+dfsg-822-gbbe4102

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Thu May 30 05:33:37 UTC 2013


Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> Obsolete packages should be cleaned up using a package manager frontend that
> reports that they are obsolete, not by adding Conflicts for things that
> aren't actually conflicting.


I always thought this is somehow a weakness of our packaging system
but, anyway....

Do you think it's better to have a(n empty) transition package in such case of
just do nothing and therefore leave old, unmaintained code on the system?

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