Re: mass RC bug filing: data splitting
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:11:03PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "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?
So many times.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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