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Re: Error upgrading to GNOME 2.4 on Sid



Le lun 20/10/2003 à 00:16, Joe Drew a écrit :
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 10:28, Sven Luther wrote:
> > The problem is when you move some files from one package to another.
> > both can even be part of the same source packages, and this breaks
> > everything. It _is_ a bug in dpkg/apt, and should be fixed, if possible.
> 
> You are completely wrong, and clueless to boot.
> 
> If one package intentionally contains files in another package, you must
> declare a Replaces: foo (<< 1.2.3-4). Even if it's one file. Even if
> both packages are from the same source package.
> 
> If you do anything else, you have created a bug in your package. It's
> that simple.

Maybe you should explain that to the maintainer of the package we are
talking about, as he doesn't seem to « believe » this is a bug (as of
course, there can be no bug in his packages).

See #186635.
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