Re: Replacing a package with a newer, renamed version of itself.
On Friday 18 April 2003 20:04, Paul Hampson wrote:
> I'm currently playing with FreeRadius, which was in unstable
> as radiusd-freeradius but was removed due to a grave bug
> against it, which was only supposed to keep it out of testing.
> It never appeared in a stable Debian release, so the archive
> has forgotten all about it.
>
>
> Now, to deal with these two changes, I'm expecting to have
> to do the following:
> Put a note in README.Debian about the moved config files.
> Conflicts: and Replaces: radiusd-freeradius
>
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.
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