On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:37:55PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Alternatively, there could be a new control field, say "Supersedes:", > which would result in the above behaviour. Of course, there'd have to be > a change in policy... This has already been proposed as "Previously:" (#33344), and "Successor-of:" (#77325), but is probably nothing that dpkg itself can take care of (cf. #33344). Regards, Daniel.