Hi,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> When moving files from one package to another, the package that gets the
> files needs Replaces _and_ Conflicts with older versions of the other
> package.
>
> Most packages contain the Replaces since otherwise upgrades break, but
> they lack the Conflicts leading to the following problem:
> The package dependencies allow installing the new -data package and
> later an older (pre-split) version of the main package resulting in a
> file overwrite error by dpkg [1].
I (currently) don't agree.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236308 for a
similar problem on which I currently do not see the sense of modifying
Conflicts:
DO you have _strong_ arguments for that?
> [1] Don't ask:
> Why should someone do this?
> Estimate the number of Debian users, imagine a few unlikely
> scenarios where this can happen, and then multiply an estimated
user errors mostly (as in the above case)
> probability of such an scenario with the estimated number of Debian
> users.
and? when they do dumb things they do dumb things.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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