Re: RFS: figtoipe / difficulties with Replaces:
On 17-May-08, 11:51 (CDT), Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> Using Replaces on its own seems bizarre to me. OTOH, some packages do
> this; e.g., xfce4 Replaces xfce4-dev without conflicting with it. [0]
It's not bizarre. That's how you move files from one package to another.
It would be nifty if you could explicitly list the files being Replaced,
to avoid accidents, but I suspect there are more important things to be
done.
Steve
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