cleanly upgrading from woody to cvs dpkg?

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

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CVS as of this morning gives this when upgrading from not-unstable:

frantica:~/src$ sudo dpkg -i dpkg_1.10_i386.deb dselect_1.10_i386.deb
dpkg: regarding dpkg_1.10_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on dselect
  dselect is not installed.
dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.10_i386.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing dpkg
Selecting previously deselected package dselect.
(Reading database ... 56934 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dselect (from dselect_1.10_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing dselect_1.10_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite /usr/bin/dselect', which is also in package dpkg
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dpkg_1.10_i386.deb
 dselect_1.10_i386.deb

This should fix it:

--- debian/control.orig Sat Jul 14 16:11:16 2001
+++ debian/control      Fri Jul 20 12:26:17 2001
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 Package: dpkg
 Architecture: any
 Essential: yes
-Pre-Depends: dselect, ${shlibs:Pre-Depends}
+Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Pre-Depends}
+Depends: dselect
 Conflicts: sysvinit (<< 2.72)
 Replaces: dpkg-doc-ja, dpkg-static
 Conflicts: dpkg-static
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@
 Package: dselect
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Replaces: dpkg (>= 1.9.10)
+Replaces: dpkg (<< 1.10)
 Description: a user tool to manage Debian GNU/Linux packages
  dselect is the primary user interface for installing, removing and
  managing Debian GNU/Linux packages. It is an front-end to dpkg.

Just changing the Replaces line for dselect results in this - starting
point was dpkg 1.9.6:

frantica:~/src$ sudo dpkg -i dpkg_1.10_i386.deb dselect_1.10_i386.deb
dpkg: regarding dpkg_1.10_i386.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency problem:
 dpkg pre-depends on dselect
  dselect is not installed.
dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.10_i386.deb (--install):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing dpkg
Selecting previously deselected package dselect.
(Reading database ... 56934 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dselect (from dselect_1.10_i386.deb) ...
Replacing files in old package dpkg ...
Setting up dselect (1.10) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 dpkg_1.10_i386.deb

This is probably an ordering bug in dpkg 1.9.6... but still something that
should be worked around.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- The Fifth Element