Re: The "Replaces:" Field

[Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>]

* David Lloyd

 > I don't know if this is the right forum to ask, but I want to replace:
 > 
 > lloy0076@cirith:/usr/share/apps/ksplash/pics$ ls
 >                        splash_bottom.png        splash_top.png
 > splash_active_bar.png  splash_inactive_bar.png  splash_top.png.backup
  (..)
 > Replaces: kdebase

  You don't want to do that, then your package would make apt de-install
 kdebase upon installing your own.

  You're looking for `dpkg-divert'.  Alternatively, you could ask the KDE
 maintainers to split the ksplash theme into a separate package, then you
 could conflict with that instead.

-- 
Tore Anderson