Re: debian package status

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 13.14, Pedro Kroger wrote:
> > Sounds good. And before doing anything, please think through all
> > dependencies twice.
>
> That's a good piece of advice. In fact I have to sit down one day and
> double check this.
>
> > We don't want to need any dummy transition packages ever (such as
> > lilypond1.3); there should maybe be a good way to obsolete all
> > earlier packages.
>
> I agree, but OTOH debian has very strong policies about upgrading (and
> downgrading) so sometimes a dummy package may be necessary (I'm sure a
> more experienced debian developer can explain why).

What I meant was that you could keep this in mind, so you can minimise the 
risk of needing transition packages in the future.

Erik