Re: No luck with package renaming

[Roland Bauerschmidt <roland@hbg.schule.bremen.de>]

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:55:26PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:

> Package: sawfish
> Version: 0.27.1-1
> Depends: (lots of libraries)
> Conflicts: sawmill
> Provides: x-window-manager
> Replaces: sawmill
> 
> Package: sawmill
> Version: 0.27.1-1
> Depends: sawfish

Your new virtual sawmill package cannot be installed because it depends
on sawfish, but sawfish conflicts with sawmill. You should declare
sawfish conflicting to sawmill (<< fooversion).

Greetings, Roland

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