Bug#349706: linux-kernel-headers: Needs to conflict with amd64-libs-dev 1.1
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 14:59 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:03:21PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Both linux-kernel-headers in etch and amd64-libs-dev in sarge
> > provide /usr/include/asm/bootsetup.h (among others), leading to a hiccup
> > during sarge->etch upgrade if they are not upgraded in the right order.
> >
> > To force the right order, please have linux-kernel-headers conflict with
> > amd64-libs-dev (<<1.4) [or whatever version of amd64-libs-dev dropped
> > those files].
>
> Please use Replaces rather than Conflicts here; using Conflicts for
> moved files makes the package management system's job unnecessarily
> difficult (because it requires that one package be totally removed from
> the system temporarily during the upgrade).
Either way, please address this bug. It is causing headaches by
interrupting upgrades. It is more than a year old. It's not that hard,
really!
Thank you,
-Adam
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