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Re: Relation with non-existing packages



Previously Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> This says that a package cannot conflict with an old version of another
> package. That is bad!

You're right. Saying that you may conflict with packages in older
distributions as well doesn't fix this very well, since you can't check
that automatically without extensive archives. Would be just dropping
Conflicts here be enough? The same will probably hold for Replaces.

Wichert.

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