Re: Release-critical Bugreport for February 7, 1999

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On 9 Feb 1999, Guy Maor wrote:

> Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> 
> > If a new package contains all the files of another package dpkg will
> > notice that and mark the older package as removed.
> 
> Yes, but that trick can't be used for basefiles because it contains
> /dev/* files.
> 
> Ian did post some instructions for removing this package a while back.
> Search debian-devel.

Does somebody remember the approximate date of this?

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