Re: Shishi 0.0.26

[Simon Josefsson]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Maybe we can keep the postrm/prerm in the old shishid package?  I'm
>> not sure if I got everything correct (I had troubles installing the
>> 0.0.23 package at all), but dist-upgrade now seem to work.
>
> That wasn't really true...  I'm tweaking things further, but haven't
> succeeded yet.  Stay tuned.

The problem is, IIUC, that we can't use prerm/postinst to handle an
old buggy shishid if we at the same time have a shishi-kdc do:

Provides: shishid
Conflicts: shishid
Replaces: shishid

When I run dist-upgrade, dpkg will use the prerm from the old shishid
package, which fails, and there is no prerm from the "new" shishid,
because there is no new shishid.

One solution I see would be to provide an "empty" shishid with the
prerm, that depends on shishi-kdc, and remove the above
Provides/Conflicts/Replaces.  We can remove that package once the
package has been in testing for a couple of months.

What do you think?

/Simon