dpkg with new Essential (Was: pidof changing from sysvinit-devel to procps)
As pidof is moving from sysvinit-utils to procps-base in the next
release, I want to check I've got the way dpkg handles flags correctly.
procps-base will contain the new pidof and will be
Essential: yes
Breaks: sysvinit-utils << 2.88dsf-43
Now, if there is a new Essential package, is that automatically
installed?
What happens with the Essential and Breaks, one says "install this now"
the other says "dont install this if a verison of sysvinit-utils is
there". That's a bit of a conflict.
Is Replaces a better way of doing this as procps-base is replacing
one file from sysvinit-utils?
Other than removing pidof, is there anything the syscinit-utils
people need to do?
As its a bit tricky, I really don't want to mess up the
inter-dependencies. A non-working file init uses is a bad thing.
- Craig
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