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 08:06:47PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, ntp introduced versioned Replaces and
> > Conflicts on the packages now merged into it, when there was no
> > reason to do so.
> 
> The reason was pretty much to get rid of the old packages while the new 
> one is installed.

An unversioned conflict/replaces will do that just as well,
since the packages no longer exist.

> The control file for the ntp package is full of such conflict
> declarations with older package versions.  Are you saying
> that we shouldn't set a Conflicts against the old version, or
> should be drop both Replaces and Conflicts?  Unfortunately, I
> can't seem to find your patch.

I'm saying that I believe the *versioning* of those
relationships to be unnecessary.  I'm sorry about dropping the
patch; I got bitten by #211808.

I responded to Kurt with the patch attached for real this time,
and it should be showing up in the BTS shortly.

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