Re: Think I found errors in apt-get, need help with wine package
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:58 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> 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.)
You're right, mea culpa.
Either way, it doesn't mean what the OP appeared to believe it meant.
Adam
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