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Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field



On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:39 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Qui, 2005-06-23 às 12:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez escreveu:
> > OK.  That is what I am looking for.  I want to completely replace
> the
> > two packages that cannot coexist with the new icewmcp package.
> > Currently, I must use dummy packages for that, correct?
> 
> Correct. And Conflicts: with version <= ${Source-Version} of both, if
> icewmcp has a greater version than both. I guess you'll need to use an
> epoch if not. 

Only if dummy packages come from same source as icewmcp.  If he wants to
avoid epoching he could just create dummy source package...  (At least I
think so :-).

O.
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Ondrej Sury <ondrej@sury.org>



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