On 20041130T103405+0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > That's to be expected, you appear to be misunderstanding what a > Replaces: header does. The purpose of the Replaces: is to say "if I > install wine-dev, then remove libwine-dev first". No, actually, Replaces: A says "I contain files which A also contains; ignore the problem, please, and just install my files over the files in A". (The magic combination of Conflicts & Replaces & Provides has different semantics, "I supersede A", but that's not derivable from their individual meanings.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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