Re: transitioning config files between two packages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Bill Allombert 

| On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
| > I do know also that beginning with the dpkg version in etch, the Conflicts:
| > is no longer required when moving conffiles, it's possible to use Replaces:
| > by itself.
| 
| I wonder if a versioned depend on dpkg can ensure the new dpkg is used 
| to handle the package ?

It can't, since dpkg doesn't re-exec itself.

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