Re: Bug#709758: Replacing a binary package by another one(was: Communication issue?)

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Subject: Re: Bug#709758: Replacing a binary package by another one(was: Communication issue?)
From: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:34:55 +0200
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On 2013-09-05 11:15, David Kalnischkies wrote:
[ Provides/Replaces up thread ]

The policy defines two uses of Replaces:

[…]

So my simple question is, which combination of relations should that
be that tells a smart package manager to upgrade pkgA to pkgB ?


What about pkgB replacing and providing pkgA?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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