Re: Replacing a single file with Replaces:

[debdev@Tonelli.sns.it (Andrea Mennucc)]

can you post a copy of your debian/control file?

a.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:10:41AM +0100, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> In the policy manual, section 7.5.1 "Overwriting files in other packages" it 
> says:
> "However, if the overwriting package declares that it Replaces the one 
> containing the file being overwritten, then dpkg will replace the file from 
> the old package with that from the new. The file will no longer be listed as 
> `owned' by the old package. "
> 
> I read that to mean that you can actually replace a single file from a 
> package, in another package. But I can't get that to work. If I put 
> "Replaces:" and the package name which I want to replace a file in, dpkg 
> still aborts and says that the file exists in multiple packages. 
> 
> How to get this feature to work, to replace a single file in a package from 
> within another package?
> 
> 
> 

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