Bug#383212: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#383212: ntp: relationships with -server, -simple, and -refclock needlessly strict, and block other packages from upgrading

[Branden Robinson]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:54:03PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:24:32PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Package: ntp
> > Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> 
> I don't see a patch, which might try explain the rest of your mail.

Bahhh.  Sorry about that.  That means I just found two bugs in
reportbug:

1) If you do an attachment, then later use the "m" option to
edit the report with a mailer, the attachment gets dropped.
(At least if you choose mutt, as I did).

2) The reason I had to edit the report was to update the
X-Debbugs-CC line.  If reportbug would have let me do that from
its submission menu, I wouldn't have had to do 1).

Sorry again for the confusion.  Lemme try that patch again.

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diff -urN ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2.orig/debian/changelog ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2/debian/changelog
--- ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2.orig/debian/changelog	2006-08-15 13:07:34.176824000 -0400
+++ ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2/debian/changelog	2006-08-15 13:13:23.716412846 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+ntp (1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-1.branden.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Soften ntp binary package's Conflicts and Replaces relationships with
+    ntp-{refclock,server,simple} so that they are unversioned; a versioning
+    expression is unnecessary as none of these exist now as dummy packages
+    (and do not need to, as all depended directly or transitively on ntp
+    itself).  State that ntp Provides the three merged packages, so that
+    packages depending on them are not spuriously blocked from upgrading
+    before their dependencies are manually changed.
+
+ -- Branden Robinson <branden at progeny.com>  Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:08:52 -0400
+
 ntp (1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Peter Eisentraut ]
diff -urN ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2.orig/debian/control ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2/debian/control
--- ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2.orig/debian/control	2006-08-15 13:07:34.156827000 -0400
+++ ntp-4.2.2+dfsg.2/debian/control	2006-08-15 13:08:42.553757272 -0400
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: lsb-base, adduser, netbase, perl-modules, psmisc, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
 Suggests: ntp-doc
-Replaces: ntp-server (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-simple (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-refclock (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), xntp, xntp3
-Conflicts: chrony, ntp-server (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-simple (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-refclock (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9)
+Replaces: ntp-server, ntp-simple, ntp-refclock, xntp, xntp3
+Conflicts: chrony, ntp-server, ntp-simple, ntp-refclock
+Provides: ntp-server, ntp-simple, ntp-refclock
 Description: Network Time Protocol: server and utility programs
  NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate
  over the Internet, or by following an accurate hardware receiver which