Re: Conflics/Provides?

[Igor Grobman <igor@digicron.com>]

> If I have:
> 
> Package: something
> Architecture: any
> Section: x11
> Priority: optional
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, cpp
> 
> Package: something-else
> Architecture: any
> Section: x11
> Priority: optional
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, cpp
> Suggests: something
> 
> Package: something-custom
> Architecture: any
> Section: x11
> Priority: optional
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, cpp
> Conflicts: something
> Provides: something
> 
> is this ok? will something-custom replace something,

If you want it to replace something, you need to add Replaces: there.

> and will
> something-else be happy with it? 

Yes.

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