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Re: Replacing a package with a newer, renamed version of itself.



On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:22, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> the conflicts and replaces make a new install of the package over the old one 
> go smoothly.  However, it will not cause apt to automatically move to the new 
> package.

A good solution IMO is to keep a fake (empty) package of
radiusd-freeradius that depends on the new freeradius package, that way,
if someone does have it installed, apt-get will try to upgrade it and
then install the new package. You'll have to dump the Conflicts though,
or else apt-get won't let you upgrade a package that'll be removed on
the same run.

Hope I've been helpful

Cheers
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