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Re: Strange new release-2 errors from upset
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The mktemp package is obsolete. It comes from coreutils these days.
Then the transition wasn't correctly handled, because the latest
mktemp-1.5-4 is a real package. An empty 1.5-5 package should have been
created at the same time as coreutils-6.10-1 so that mktemp's mktemp(1)
would be replaced by coreutils'.
It's not too late to fix that, provided we artificially bump coreutils
to 6.10-2 simultaneously.
> I guess I should have made it clear that these were obsolete packages
> and hence were not part of the release-2 hierarchy. I don't understand
> why non-obsolete packages in release are relying on obsolete packages
> though.
In some of those cases, IIRC the dependency was current when the file
was uploaded and made obsolete later.
The GNOME stuff is all mine; once the X11 transition takes place, I can
start working on moving those GNOME libraries from Ports back into the
distro.
Yaakov
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