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Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages



SZALAY Attila schrieb:
> 
> 2) No two package can contain the same _installed_ file.
> 
> If this two is true (and I think so) then you couldn't install the old
> ssh package and the new one. So how can you do this?
> 

If the new package has a "Replaces: old_package", it will *take over*
the conflicting config_files from the old package [1].

Cheers,
Michael

[1]
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

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