Bug#55811: dist upgrade didn't mention that fvwm2 was superseded by fvwm.

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

[Cc to -devel; does anyone have any ideas how to handle this problem?]

> Package: fvwm2
> Version: 2.1.10-2
> 
> Hi,
>         I upgraded to fvwm version 2 ages ago, and had removed the fvwm
> package and only used fvwm2.
>         This meant that at upgrade time, fvwm2 wasn't upgraded, and fvwm
> didn't appear.  I suggest an addition to the post-inst script for fvwm2,
> which checks if someone is in my position, i.e. fvwm2 installed, fvwm not
> installed, and tells that that version 2 of fvwm is now in the fvwm
> package.

This is really difficult, primarily because the fvwm2 package doesn't
exist any longer.  The new fvwm package Conflicts and Replaces fvwm2,
so I would have hoped that it would appear somehow.  I don't know
where to send this bug.

   Julian

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