Ticket #848 (closed defect: fixed)
The major metapackages should stop being equivs packages
| Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | jdreed |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Natty Beta |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
We're forced to play stupid games with dependencies, because we can't build different versions of the metapackages for different releases. I'm no longer convinced that the benefit of equivs packages outweighs the ability to do that.
This would also allow us to have a unified build procedure.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
Also also, machtype -L could stop using dpkg-query, for the reasons discussed in #778.
comment:3 follow-up: ↓ 4 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Owner set to jdreed
- Status changed from new to accepted
comment:4 in reply to: ↑ 3 Changed 13 years ago by kaduk
Replying to jdreed:
I'm torn between whether it's better to do this as needed, or do a flag day and switch machtype at the same time. Probably the latter, now that I think about it.
Not really much of a difference, but might as well just have a flag day and do them all.
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
For things like -extra-software, is there any reason that extra-software-nox and extra-software can't be part of the same source package?
comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by geofft
That's fine, the only thing to note is that versions are per source package, not per binary package, so you would be putting out no-change upgrades for extra-software-nox every time you update extra-software which seems cosmetically suboptimal.
comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
I've restored changelog history for clients, extra-software, extra-software-nox, cluster, and workstation, and had great fun with the commit logs. login, standard, locker, and login-graphical I'll tackle tomorrow.
extra-software (1.0.1) got built and pushed to proposed because of #692 and an unbuilt change to prefer suckless-tools to dwm-tools.
comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from committed to development
Built and uploaded to dev:
clients: 1.0.1
cluster: 1.9
extra-software: 1.0.2
extra-software-nox: 1.0
locker:1.0
login:1.0
login-graphical: 1.0
standard:1.0
workstation:1.4
comment:11 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from proposed to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
I tested this with -clients (1.0, in -dev) and it appears to "just work". Is there a compelling reason not to do this for -standard through -cluster, and possibly -extra-software and -thirdparty? That would allow us to close #692, as well.