Re: Moving files between packages without --force-overwrite

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Drake Diedrich <Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au> writes:

> While cleaning up some lintian bugs I ran into this problem: I want
> to move some files between two binary packages (same source).  The
> new packages can be installed on a clean system, but they conflict
> with the old packages due to the file overlaps.  Files are going
> both ways, and one package depends on the other.
>
> If the dependent (-dev) package is removed, the upgrade can occur,
> but declaring a Conflict and making the user go through multiple
> select steps seems like overkill.

Use Replaces:.  See the packaging manual for more details
(/usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ch-relationships.html#s8.5.1).

-- 
James


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