Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@Q.cistron.nl>]

You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: New dpkg overwrite behaviour undesirable"):
> ...
> > BTW the next sysvinit will conflict with older versions of bsd-utils,
> > ofcourse, so that this problem will not appear. I hope dselect is
> > then smart enough to realize bsd-utils should be installed first.
> 
> No, please don't do it like that.  Please use Replaces rather than
> Conflicts.
> 
> Conflicts means you think the other package should be deinstalled,
> which is not what you mean here.  Replaces will do the right thing.

So Replaces: really means replaces _a part of_ another package?
Aha. Can I also say "Replaces: bsdutils (<=2.0-2) ?

Mike.
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