Bug#193540: should provide more intelligence...

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

severity 193540 normal
thanks

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 12:07:05PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10.10
> Severity: important
> 
> openoffice.org-mimelnk conflicts with openoffice.org (<= 1.0.3-2) and
> openoffice.org with openoffice.org-l10n-en (<= 1.0.3-2) due to a package
> split and file moving from package A to package B,.
> 
> OK, let's test the 2.3pre1 packages:
> 
> $ LANG="C" sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org*2.3pre1*deb
> dpkg: regarding openoffice.org_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb containing openoffice.org:
>  openoffice.org conflicts with openoffice.org-l10n-en (<= 1.0.3-2)
>   openoffice.org-l10n-en (version 1.0.3-2) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing openoffice.org_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org
> [...]
> dpkg: regarding openoffice.org-mimelnk_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb containing openoffice.org-mimelnk:
>  openoffice.org-mimelnk conflicts with openoffice.org (<= 1.0.3-2)
>   openoffice.org (version 1.0.3-2) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-mimelnk_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing openoffice.org-mimelnk
> [...]
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  openoffice.org_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb
>  openoffice.org-mimelnk_1.0.3-2.3pre1_all.deb
> 
> a-ha.
> 
> dpkg should notice that I am about to install all 2.3pre1 packages (which
> will replace the 1.0.3-2 packages) and let me do it...
> 
> apt works fine.

Maybe apt runs dpkg with --auto-deconfigure or so?

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