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Re: Policy consensus on transition when removing initscripts.



Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> On 6/28/23 13:05, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> In that case, I don't actually know why we usually use Conflicts with
>> Replaces.  Maybe we don't really need to?

> Replaces+Conflicts together has a special meaning, that is used for
> replacing a package completely in an atomic operations, such as when a
> package is being renamed.

Yeah, I knew that part, but for some reason I thought we normally always
combine Replaces with Breaks or Conflicts even for other cases.  Maybe I
just made that up and confused myself.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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