Re: mass RC bug filing: data splitting

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >> Are you confusing Conflicts&Replaces with replacing all files in another 
> >> package?
> 
> > Using both Conflicts and Replaces on the same package version _is_
> > replacing all files in another package. RTFM.
> 
> Policy says the opposite, please reread 7.5.1 and 7.5.2.

It does not, I merely used a slightly imprecise wording trying to answer
your sentence, which was flawed from the start anyway.

> 7.5.1 describes Replaces as used to allow overwriting and taking over
> files in another package (if this happens to all files in the other
> package this package is marged uninstalled automatially and its postrm
> is run with argument disappear).
> 
> OTOH if two packages Conflicts *and* Replaces with each other one of
> them is properly removed (no overwriting files, postrm uninstall) and
> afterwards the other is installed, see 7.5.2.

And that's _not_ what you want when moving files between packages.

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