Re: dpkg can't handle multiple replaces (was: Freezing Bo)
On 27 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> dpkg has problems with installing packages which have multiple
> replaces together with conflicts. The problem comes up with the
> installation of tetex which is supposed to replace all the old tex
> packages.
>
It's also very hard to upgrade to tetex using dselect... Partly because of
this missing feature (from /usr/doc/dpkg/WISHLIST):
* understand Replaces in dselect
Maybe it might be a good idea to delay tetex until 1.4?
Christian
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