Bug#350740: Bug#351430: seamonkey for etch ?

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:23:26AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen at wolffelaar.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:27:40AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Now, some comments on Hendrik-Jan messages:
> > > - transition/dummy package (how do I do this?)
> > 
> > The only solution is to make these transition packages from the mozilla
> > source package, because they have an epoch.
> 
> You can generate the transition packages from seamonkey just fine --
> you can override the version used in the binary package from
> debian/rules -- they do not need to match the source version (though
> it's the default and deviating should be done with care). See
> gcc-defaults for a well known example.

Well, yeah, you can do painful things. I tend to like the KISS
principles. ;)

Mike