Question about removal of cyrus-sasl2-mit

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

    Russ> Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> writes:
    >> I made a small mistake in the current package -- I made it
    >> provide libsasl2-gssapi-mit. I forgot that virtual packages
    >> have to be agreed upon beforehand. So that Provides has to be
    >> removed. I'll take care of it.

    Russ> Oh, there's a provides.  Okay.  I don't actually know how
    Russ> that works (I should have checked that; sorry).  I think a
    Russ> transitional package is still better, but a provides *may*
    Russ> be enough for aptitude to figure it out.  I'm not sure.


IT used to be the case that provides, conflicts, replaces was enough
for apt-get to figure out that one package had completely replaced
another.
At least in the cases where dependencies pulled in the new package.

I agree a transitional package is cleaner especially since we don't
have dependencies to force apt to look at the new package.

Thanks for dealing with this and for all the great work on sasl.

--Sam