Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:30:01PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Right now, coreutils replaces debianutils (<= 2.3.1). However, if I try >> to install both packages simultaneously (e.g. using debootstrap), or try >> to reinstall debianutils, I get: >> >> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.3.1_i386.deb (--unpack): >> trying to overwrite `/bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils > > Replaces is (unfortunately) a one way relationship -- you have to > install the replacing package after the replaced package. Doing this > with essential packages seems a bit odd; not having a fixed debianutils > yet seems quite wrong. So reassign the bug to debianutils and clone it to debian-policy? -- On a scale of 1 to 10? It sucked.
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