On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:48:49AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:30:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.10.15 > > Severity: normal > > > > IRC transcript: > > > [...] > > I'm afraid that that sounded like a bunch of tripe to me :) > I'd recommend reading Policy Manual section 7.5 > "Overwriting files and replacing packages - Replaces" first. The case I'm concerned about is section 7.5.2. It would be no less correct for libutahglx1, once it is maintained again, to Conflict with and Replace xlibmesa-gl, so given this symmetric relationship, I'm not sure how this "allows the packaging system to resolve which package should be removed when there is a conflict." -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. branden@debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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