[pacman-dev] %REPLACES% doesn't appear in localdb

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 8, 2008 5:30 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/3, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > On Jan 3, 2008 7:46 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> > > I know, that we don't need that field, but then we should remove 'replaces'
> > > listing from -Qi. Since we have some other not needed but interesting infos in
> > > local db (packager, optdepend etc.) I vote for remove that if(!local) line instead.
> >
> > I wondered about the same thing for a while.
> >
> > I see no reason to keep it out of the local DB, it's rarely used anyway. Dan?
> >
>
> Status on this? I couldn't found anything about this in git log.

I want to wait until 3.1.1 so it can get sufficient testing. Although
I think the exclusion is weird, I'm not sure how our code will handle
it on complicated upgrades as no one has produced a pactest yet to
test such things.

-Dan