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Re: transitioning config files between two packages



On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:40:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Bill Allombert 
> 
> | On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> | > I do know also that beginning with the dpkg version in etch, the Conflicts:
> | > is no longer required when moving conffiles, it's possible to use Replaces:
> | > by itself.
> | 
> | I wonder if a versioned depend on dpkg can ensure the new dpkg is used 
> | to handle the package ?
> 
> It can't, since dpkg doesn't re-exec itself.

Does not that depend whether apt special-case dpkg upgrade ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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