I don't have any objections to this. And yes, I'd love to have some help doing so -- transitional packages that end up in official hoary-backports would be great. <div>On 9/25/05, Reinhard Tartler <<a href="mailto:siretart@gmail.com">siretart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 9/25/05, Reinhard Tartler <<a href="mailto:siretart@gmail.com">siretart@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 9/25/05, John Dong <<a href="mailto:john.dong@gmail.com">john.dong@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > The people who have hoary-backports 1.0.6 installed cannot transition back > > to hoary-security style, non-breezy mozilla-firefox packages without > > overwrite warnings, unless hoary-security gets a Conflicts: firefox line in > > their rules. > > John, this is not right. > > You could easily install a transition package in your backports > repository, which enables users upgrading to the version of firefox in > warty and hoary on <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com">security.ubuntu.com</a> without any user interaction. > > And excatly this was proposed by Martin Pitt. btw, you do know how to create empty packages, which just depends on the new package name, do you? (Exactly this was proposed by pitti in his original mail). Do you have any objections with this solution? Need help with this? -- regards, </blockquote></div>