Replaces: line (was: Re: Bug#2582: last is obsolete)
You (Dirk Eddelbuettel) wrote:
> The problem is not with last or dpkg, but with sysvinit. Miquel should
> have put a Conflicts: last in the control file. AKAIUI dpkg then removes
> last, and removes all of it, before sysvinit with it's last binary and
> man page get installed.
It has a "Replaces: last" which should work fine with newer dpkg's.
Read: should. I don't think it works allright yet. I've filed bug
reports about this but they never showed up (wasn't that when Ian
was moving the bugs stuff around?).
Mike.
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