Add conflicts/replaces for the obsolete packages

Bug #1420175 reported by Timo Jyrinki on 2015-02-10
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Bug Description

Archive admin (infinity) recommends adding Conflicts:/Replaces: lines to the new mir-platform-graphics-* packages in debian/control, so that they conflict+replace the old libmirplatform5driver-* packages. This would make the old packages removed upon upgrade.

As the new packages did not have the same files this was not a fatal error preventing release of Mir 0.11, but it should be fixed so that people upgrading get rid of the obsolete packages properly.

Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

Hmm, cjwatson disagrees though:
< cjwatson> infinity,Mirv: We don't normally use C/R for library transitions, surely; I'd be concerned that for this kind of thing it would make the upgrade unresolvable?
< cjwatson> or at least over-complex

I don't think it'd make it unresolvable, but yes it'd add to complexity. One can argue the apt-get autoremove would eventually at some point take care of this...

So, marking as Invalid for now, can be reopened if considered valid.

Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in mir:
status: New → Invalid
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