[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts 2008.02-1

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 13:50:52 EST 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:22:32PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Jeff Mickey <jeff at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >  And now were at the present and me writing this email.  Add the netcfg
> >  dependency to initscripts, and the initscripts>=2008.02-1 to udev 118,
> >  and I'm happy.
> 
> This is a little off.
> a) netcfg isn't required, so it'd be an optdepend. Still, an install
> message would be a good idea for this.
> b) udev 118 doesn't depend on initscripts. It's the other way around.
> Sure adding that dep would have fixed your issue, but it's still not
> the right way to fix this... the real fix is to re-release a udev
> package that still contains start_udev.
> 

What about JGC's suggestion of using versioned conflict? I think it makes
sense.
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