Re: mass RC bug filing: data splitting
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
Colin> The fact that Replaces doesn't work properly when you try
Colin> to reinstall the package with replaced files is a bug in
Colin> dpkg, which should simply be fixed. Replaces and Conflicts
Colin> is already explicitly reserved by Debian policy to mean
Colin> something different, namely the total replacement of the
Colin> other package, and is already used by dpkg for this
Colin> purpose: it's on the code path that prints "dpkg:
Colin> considering removing %s in favour of %s" if you want to
Colin> look for it yourself.
Has a bug report been filled against dpkg?
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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