[SCM] Debian packaging for jack-audio-connection-kit branch, master.jackd1, updated. debian/0.118+svn3796-3-55-gb4962ae

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:17:43 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 05:57:48AM +0000, 
>> adiknoth-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>
>>>    Make jackd1 Replace older libjack0 installations.
>>
>>>-Conflicts: libjack0 (<< 1:0.118+svn3796-4),
>>>+Replaces: libjack0 (<< 1:0.118+svn3796-4),
>>
>> It needs to conflict also: We cannot have multiple packages e.g. 
>> provide the conffile.
>
>does libjack0 provide a conffile? I don't think so.

Oh - stupid me.


>>   * Provides: declare package name
>
>rather: implement the named 'virtual' package

Yeps, that's what I was trying to say too :-)


>>   * Conflicts: require only one implementation installed at a time
>>   * Replaces: take over overlapping files (e.g. conffile)
>
>conffile or regular file. in this case: /usr/lib/libjackserver.so.0
>
>> ...that's at least my understanding of it - I might be wrong about 
>> some details or not cover it all: Read the Debian Policy for official 
>> info.
>
>I'm pretty confident that Replaces is correct here and conflicts is not 
>necessary.

I do believe they are both needed: I believe that "Replaces" do not 
magically solve collissions between multiple concurrently installed 
packages providing same files (conffile or not).


But as I said earlier, I might be wrong.

(I shall try ignore any and all responses to this email now - I made my 
point already, and should concentrate on my theater work now)


  - Jonas

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