Re: Debian packaging

Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Previously Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Unfortunately, there don't appear to be more than a few package system
> that support this method of deleting the old package only after trying
> out the new package for a while.

It is a policy choice. For dpkg it was a deliberate choice to not
support that and we still stick with that decision. I strongly feel it
that it makes dpkg simpler and more robust.

Wichert.

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