Re: Conflicting with old versions of a package

To: Marco Pistore <pistore@DI.Unipi.IT>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Conflicting with old versions of a package
From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>
Date: 03 Apr 1998 13:40:59 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] dmmk997axic.fsf@dcsun4.comp.brad.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: Marco Pistore's message of "Fri, 3 Apr 1998 13:17:40 +0200 (CEST)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980403131100.237K-100000@ludwig.di.unipi.it>

Marco Pistore <pistore@DI.Unipi.IT> writes:

> Is it sufficient to add the following clause to gv
>   Conflicts: fvwm-common (<<XX.YY)
> (where XX.YY is the first version of fvwm-common without the mini-gv.xpm
> file)?

Don't use Conflicts:, use Replaces:.  (See Packaging 8.5.1)

-- 
James


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