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Bug#3085: bsdmainutils uses inappropriate `Conflicts bsdutils (<<...)'



>  Package: bsdmainutils
>  Maintainer: Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>
>  Architecture: i386
>  Version: 3.0-0
>  Depends: libc5, libdb1 (>= 1.85.2-6), ncurses3.0 (>= 1.9.8a-4), bsdutils (>= 3.0
>  Conflicts: bsdutils (<< 3.0-0)
>
> This conflict is likely to cause problems for dpkg/dselect when they
> install things.  Use Replaces or some other mechanism instead.
> Contact me if you want to discuss what to do.

Ian, this is the type of situation where my conditional dependency
idea could help.  I emailed it over a month ago but you never
responded.  If you missed it or never received it, let me know and
I'll resend it.

David
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