On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:05:02PM +0100, Christian Marillat scribbled: > Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> writes: > > [...] > > > You're right and the parts of policy you quoted confirm that. But my point > > is that (even though it's ok according to the policy) the fact the new > > package is supposed to replace the older may create a confusion as to its > > functionality. If the old package is gone, let it be gone - what is the > > point of replacing it in this way? > > The new packages don't need to replaces to old one. API for these news > packages is completely different and and GNOME 1.4 package will never > compile with the GNOME 2 libapplet. Christian, I know that. Let me rephrase my question, I was probably not clear enough. Is there a viable reason for libpanel-applet0 to replace libpanel-applet-dev? The former does not provide the functionality of the latter and it doesn't seem to be necessary to add the Replace: libpanel-applet-dev to its control file, since that creates a confusion as to the functionality provided by libpanel-applet0 and doesn't seem to be necessary to remove (as per policy quoted in the other mail) the libpanel-applet-dev package. In other words - wouldn't it be better if you dropped the Replace: line from the libpanel-applet0 control file? thanks, marek
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