Cosmic mutter version and budgie desktop

David Mohammed davidmohammed at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 08:58:39 UTC 2018


Jeremy
 agreed. Adam has pulled together a quick patch to resolve which I
have included and uploaded.

David
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 21:25, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:47 PM David Mohammed <davidmohammed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This includes a bunch of upstream changes.  The debian package has had
> > to be changed quite a bit to accommodate the changes - and a tweak to
> > ensure "caffeine" users coming from 18.04 don't crash and burn during
> > the upgrade since the new budgie installs the same icons into the same
> > folder locations.
>
> +Replaces: caffeine (<< 10.4)
> +Breaks: caffeine (<< 10.4)
>
> because of
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/caffeine-cup-empty.svg
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/caffeine-cup-full.svg
>
> Sorry, but I don't think that's the best way to handle this situation.
>
> Are the icons exactly the same? If so, I suggest asking the Debian
> caffeine maintainer if he'd be willing to split the icons into a
> separate package that budgie-desktop can depend on. budgie-desktop
> then wouldn't need any Conflicts/Breaks/Replaces itself since it never
> (assuming people don't run -proposed) shipped those file names.
>
> Anyway, I think it's impolite to add a conflict like that without
> discussing the situation with the maintainer of the package already in
> the archive.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha



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