[RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages

[Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)]

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| What if we add an "obsoletes:" line to setup.{ini,hint}?
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| The idea is that you don't have to provide empty replacement packages
| for the old packages anymore, and setup removes all packages noted in
| the "obsoletes:" line before installing the new package, in the same
| step as when replaing old versions of the same package.
|
| Would that work?  Wouldn't that ease the transition to new package
| schemes a lot?

YES!!

The trick is to make sure that there can be a many-to-many correlation;
IOW a given package could specify plural packages in obsoletes:, and
setup could handle several packages which obsoletes: it.


Yaakov
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