Re: Replaces: line (was: Re: Bug#2582: last is obsolete)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Guy Maor wrote:

> The problem is not the impossibility of installing last.  The problem
> is that a mostly empty last package hangs around, containing nothing
> but the copyright notice and directories.

But that is a problem with dpkg which should have known how to remove last.

> One way is for the sysvinit to simply purge the last package in its
> postinst.

Don't do that, or something similar, for your miscutils without 
prior consultation with Ian J. 

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Dirk Eddelbuettel                                      edd@qed.econ.queensu.ca
                                  and until April 9th at edd@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr